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The Lucky Texan · Beat 116 · permalink

Private office

48:07–48:49 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; 8 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 48:1548:15Frame at 48:3148:31Frame at 48:4348:43Frame at 48:4648:46

Play from 48:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 80 · shots 168–172. 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 dark suit, standing, facing others visible
  • Jake Benson (named at t:48:25): man bending over, wearing light shirt and dark pants visible
  • man in light-colored shirt and dark pants, standing near doorway visible
  • man seated, wearing dark suit, holding hat visible
  • man in dark coat, standing near table visible
  • man in light shirt, standing near table visible
  • man on horseback, outdoors, wearing hat visible
  • man on horseback, outdoors, wearing hat visible
Seen happening
  • Riders on horseback are seen outdoors. [frame:4]
Also said
“I'm Jake Benson.” 48:25 · “And there's the two coyotes that shot me.” 48:27
Seen
dark coat [frame:1], light-colored shirt [frame:1], dark pants [frame:1], table [frame:1], chairs [frame:1], hat [frame:1], horse [frame:4], fence [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: identity revelation, confrontation, outdoor escape; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static camera, high contrast lighting

A man identifies himself as Jake Benson in a room with several others, then the scene cuts to an outdoor view of riders on horseback. A thud is heard and someone urges Henry to come along.

“Garrett?” 48:07 · “I swear, Miss Benson, then.” 48:08 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 48:15 (passage 48:07–48:49); US record: No renewal found

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