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The Lucky Texan · Beat 125 · permalink

Field

50:40–51:01 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 50:4350:43Frame at 50:4750:47Frame at 50:5150:51Frame at 50:5750:57

Play from 50:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 86 · shots 189–192. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • person on horseback, dark clothing, hat visible
  • man in hat and suit, seated in vehicle visible
  • man in hat and light shirt, seated in vehicle visible
  • man driving open car, dark jacket visible
  • unspecified audible
Seen happening
  • A person rides a horse across a hilly field. [frame:1]
  • Two men sit in a vehicle beside railroad tracks. [frame:2]
  • A man drives an open car across a field. [frame:3]
  • The car drives away on a dirt road, kicking up dust. [frame:4]
Seen
horse [frame:1], railroad tracks [frame:2], open car [frame:3, frame:4], dust [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light and transient; themes: departure, travel, open landscape; style notes: wide shots, natural lighting, outdoor setting, period vehicles

A person on horseback is seen in a hilly landscape, followed by two men in a vehicle near railroad tracks, then a man driving an open car across a field, and finally the car driving away on a dirt road. One person says they are going to leave, followed by laughter.

“I'm going to go.” 50:45 · “laughter” 50:57 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 50:43 (passage 50:40–51:01); US record: No renewal found

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