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Randy Rides Alone · Beat 82 · permalink

Private office

23:36–24:01 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 23:4023:40Frame at 23:4523:45Frame at 23:5423:54

Play from 23:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 50 · shots 127–129. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • woman in light dress, mid-20s, average build visible
  • man in wide-brimmed hat and light coat, visible from back visible
  • man in wide-brimmed hat and dark suit, facing camera, mustache visible
Seen happening
  • A woman walks through a room. [frame:1]
  • Two men in hats enter a doorway and appear to search. [frame:2]
  • A man in a hat stands in a furnished room with a window. [frame:3]
Also said
“Search the place.” 23:58 · “I'm going to go.” 24:00
Seen
piano, chair, doorway, framed picture, table, window
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: search, departure, confrontation; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costume, minimal set dressing

A woman walks through a room while two men in hats enter and search; one man stands in a room with furniture and a window. The transcript indicates someone is leaving and others are searching for someone inside.

“I'm going to go.” 23:37 · “He's in here somewhere.” 23:56 automatic transcript, may be wrong

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 23:40 (passage 23:36–24:01); US record: No renewal found

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