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The Lucky Texan · Beat 108 · permalink

Courtroom

43:12–44:57 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 44:0444:04

Play from 43:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 73 · shots 156–156. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
courtroom (courtroom, interior) evidence: t:44:35
People
  • woman with light hair, wearing a light-colored dress, seated visible, audible
  • man with mustache, wearing vest and shirt, seated visible, audible
  • woman speaking off-screen or entering frame, voice heard at t:44:33 audible
Also said
“You're standing right in it, madam.” 44:36 · “But if I were a murderer, I'd much prefer the electric chair.” 44:45
Seen
chair, curtains or drapes
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and dramatic; themes: justice, misunderstanding, legal peril; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, period costume, theatrical framing

A woman speaks urgently to a man about a murder accusation and a preliminary hearing, while another scene shows a woman asking for the courthouse and commenting on murder trials. The setting appears to be a courtroom or jail area.

“They think I've murdered your granddad.” 43:14 · “I'm looking for the courthouse.” 44:35 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 44:04 (passage 43:12–44:57); US record: No renewal found

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