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The Lucky Texan · Beat 105 · permalink

Private office

42:19–42:46 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 42:3342:33

Play from 42:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 70 · shots 153–153. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in cowboy hat, vest, holding hat and rolled document visible
  • man in cowboy hat, standing left, holding rolled document visible
  • man in cowboy hat, standing right, facing p1 visible
  • man in cowboy hat, partially visible behind p1 visible
  • man in cowboy hat, standing behind p2 visible
Seen happening
  • Men in cowboy hats stand in a room, one holding a hat and a rolled document. [frame:1]
Also said
“I think he killed old Jake.” 42:45 · “They do.” 42:46
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1], rolled document [frame:1], hat held by man [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: authority, accusation, confrontation; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white, studio lighting, period Western costumes

A group of men in cowboy hats stand in a room; one holds a hat and a rolled document. Dialogue suggests a sheriff is being asked to take charge of nuggets and that someone may have killed 'old Jake.'

“You better take charge of those nuggets, Sheriff.” 42:20 · “What are they going to do to me?” 42:43 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 42:33 (passage 42:19–42:46); US record: No renewal found

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