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The Lucky Texan · Beat 109 · permalink

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44:57–45:18 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 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 45:0845:08

Play from 44:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 74 · shots 157–157. 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 wearing dark shirt and belt, standing center, facing others visible
  • man wearing hat and dark coat, on left, head down visible
  • man wearing hat and dark uniform, standing center-right visible
  • man wearing wide-brimmed hat and overalls, on right, arms crossed visible
Seen happening
  • Four men stand together outdoors, one speaking to the others. [frame:1]
Also said
“Just a minute, boys. Check your hardware.” 45:12
Seen
hats, belts, overalls
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, preparation for conflict; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting typical of 1930s Westerns

Four men stand together outdoors; one speaks to others, telling them to check their weapons. No names are spoken, and no specific location is identifiable beyond being outside.

“Well, here comes the church and make them now.” 45:00 · “My goodness, what big things! Go ahead, Bill. Go ahead.” 45:04 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 45:08 (passage 44:57–45:18); US record: No renewal found

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