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The Lucky Texan · Beat 100 · permalink

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40:36–41:14 Registered 1934

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

Frame at 40:5540:55

Play from 40:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 66 · shots 148–148. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a cowboy hat and dark vest, holding a canteen visible
  • man wearing a cowboy hat and light shirt, standing beside p1 visible
  • man wearing a cowboy hat and dark coat, facing p1 and p2 visible
  • man wearing a cowboy hat and dark vest, partially visible behind p1 visible
Seen happening
  • Men in cowboy hats gather around a canteen being held by one of them. [frame:1]
Also said
“Mason should have this.” 41:00 · “Please go in there and see what Mason's doing.” 41:05
Seen
canteen [frame:1], cowboy hats [frame:1], vests [frame:1], shirts [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and inquisitive; themes: mystery, suspicion, authority; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, static framing, naturalistic lighting

A group of men in cowboy hats examine a canteen while discussing Jake Benson's disappearance and Mason's whereabouts. One man instructs another to go to the courthouse to find Mason and get an explanation.

“Uh, you see, Sheriff, will you recognize this canteen?” 40:44 · “It belongs to old Jake Benson.” 40:47 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 The Lucky Texan (1934) at 40:55 (passage 40:36–41:14); US record: No renewal found

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