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Randy Rides Alone · Beat 6 · permalink

Bar

1:47–2:03 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:491:49Frame at 1:531:53Frame at 1:581:58Frame at 2:022:02

Play from 1:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 5 · shots 9–12. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:2, frame:4
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat and light shirt, seen from back visible
  • man in cowboy hat and light shirt, walking toward building visible
  • man in cowboy hat and light shirt, standing near door visible
  • man in dark hat and plaid shirt, sitting at bar visible
  • man in light shirt, leaning over bar visible
  • man lying on floor, legs visible visible
Seen happening
  • A man on horseback approaches a building. [frame:1]
  • A man walks toward the entrance of a building labeled 'HALF WAY HOUSE'. [frame:2]
  • A man stands near the door of the building, looking to his right. [frame:3]
  • Inside the bar, a bartender leans over the counter while two men are on the floor and one sits at the bar. [frame:4]
Seen
horse [frame:1], sign reading 'HALF WAY HOUSE' [frame:2], bar counter with bottles [frame:4], barrel [frame:2], picture frame on wall [frame:4]
On screen
HALF WAY HOUSE
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: Western, saloon, confrontation; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static framing, Western genre setting

A man in a cowboy hat rides a horse toward a building labeled 'HALF WAY HOUSE'. Inside, a bartender leans over a bar while another man sits nearby and a third lies on the floor.

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from Randy Rides Alone (1934) at 1:49 (passage 1:47–2:03); US record: No renewal found

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