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Randy Rides Alone · Beat 98 · permalink

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27:34–28:03 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 27:3827:38Frame at 27:5327:53

Play from 27:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 55 · shots 165–166. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark cowboy hat and vest, medium build, visible in frame:1 and frame:2 visible
  • man in light-colored cowboy hat and shirt, visible in frame:1 and frame:2 visible
  • man in dark cowboy hat and vest, facing p2, visible in frame:1 and frame:2 visible
Seen happening
  • Three men stand near a wooden structure, two facing each other. [frame:1]
  • Two men face each other closely, one holding a small object. [frame:2]
Also said
“This is a fine way to welcome a man.” 27:53 · “There ain't no one welcome here.” 27:55
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1], vests [frame:1], wooden structure [frame:1], small object in hand [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, hospitality vs. hostility, Western frontier; style notes: medium close-ups, high contrast black-and-white, static framing, period Western costume

Two men in cowboy attire confront a third man near a wooden structure; one says they will handle him and another offers to take him inside to see the boss. No names are spoken, and the setting appears to be a rustic outdoor or semi-outdoor location.

“There's a fella hadn't been here. You know him? Never seen him before.” 27:35 · “We'll take care of him.” 27:38 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 27:38 (passage 27:34–28:03); US record: No renewal found

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