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Randy Rides Alone · Beat 90 · permalink

River

25:50–26:24 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 25:5225:52Frame at 25:5725:57Frame at 26:0626:06Frame at 26:1826:18

Play from 25:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 52 · shots 146–149. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
river (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • person on horseback, wearing dark clothing visible
  • group of riders on horseback, dark silhouettes visible
  • figure in water, indistinct visible
Seen happening
  • A person rides a horse through water. [frame:1]
  • A group of riders gallops across a river. [frame:2]
  • Riders cross a wooden bridge over water. [frame:3]
  • A figure struggles in dark water. [frame:4]
Seen
horse [frame:1], group of horses [frame:2], wooden bridge [frame:3], water [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: escape, pursuit, natural obstacle; style notes: black-and-white, wide shots, low visibility in water scenes, silhouetted figures

A person rides a horse through water, followed by a group of riders crossing a wooden bridge, then a figure is seen struggling in dark water. The transcript contains a repeated line about leaving.

“I'm going to go.” 25:54 · “I'm going to go.” 26:07 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 25:52 (passage 25:50–26:24); US record: No renewal found

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