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Randy Rides Alone · Beat 88 · permalink

Desert

24:55–25:28 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 1 name 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 25:0125:01Frame at 25:1125:11Frame at 25:2125:21

Play from 24:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 52 · shots 142–144. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
desert (desert, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • person wearing dark clothing, riding a horse visible
Seen happening
  • A person rides a horse through a rocky, arid landscape. [frame:1]
  • The rider continues through a more vegetated area with trees. [frame:2]
  • The rider crosses a shallow river on horseback. [frame:3]
Seen
horse [frame:1], river [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solitary and tense; themes: solitude, journey, conflict; style notes: wide shots, natural lighting, black and white, emphasizing the vastness of the landscape

A person rides a horse through a rocky, arid landscape and then across a shallow river. The transcript contains a single line of dialogue: 'I'm sorry.'

“I'm sorry.” 25:05 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 25:01 (passage 24:55–25:28); US record: No renewal found

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