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The Lucky Texan · Beat 121 · permalink

Road

49:38–50:01 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 49:4149:41Frame at 49:4949:49Frame at 49:5449:54Frame at 49:5849:58

Play from 49:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 84 · shots 178–181. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • two figures in dark clothing and hats, walking away visible
  • man in light shirt and dark vest, standing near a building visible
  • rider in dark clothing on a horse, partially obscured by smoke or dust visible
  • rider in dark clothing on a white horse visible
Seen happening
  • Two figures walk away on a dirt path. [frame:1]
  • A man stands near a building beside railroad tracks. [frame:2]
  • A horse and rider are shown in motion, partially obscured by smoke or dust. [frame:3]
  • A rider on a white horse moves through a wooded area. [frame:4]
Seen
railroad tracks [frame:2], building [frame:2], horse [frame:3], white horse [frame:4], trees [frame:1, frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: departure or transition; themes: departure, movement, rural setting; style notes: black-and-white, wide shots, natural outdoor lighting, use of motion and dust for dynamism

Two figures walk away on a dirt path, then a man stands near a building beside railroad tracks; a horse is shown in motion, followed by a rider on a white horse moving through a wooded area. The transcript contains the repeated line 'I'm going to go.'

“I'm going to go.” 49:40 · “I'm going to go.” 49:57 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 49:41 (passage 49:38–50:01); US record: No renewal found

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