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The Lucky Texan · Beat 11 · permalink

Creek

5:26–6:59 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; 1 name 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 6:136:13

Play from 5:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 6 · shots 19–19. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
creek (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • unseen, audible only audible
Seen happening
  • A horse stands in a creek at night. [frame:1]
Also said
“That prospector said he was forced down the middle of a creek 12 miles out.” 5:47 · “Right there's where he left the creek.” 6:22
Seen
horse, creek, rocks, trees
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: anticipatory and urgent; themes: gold prospecting, adventure, tracking; style notes: low-key lighting, night scene, static framing focused on natural setting

A person and a horse are shown near a creek at night; dialogue reveals they are tracking a prospector who found gold. The group plans to backtrack the prospector’s route to find the source.

“That's that piece of quartz that came out of the horse's hook.” 5:34 · “It's gold.” 5:37 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 6:13 (passage 5:26–6:59); US record: No renewal found

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