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The Lucky Texan · Beat 126 · permalink

Railway

51:01–51:16 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 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 51:0251:02Frame at 51:0451:04Frame at 51:1051:10Frame at 51:1451:14

Play from 51:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 86 · shots 193–197. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
railway (other, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man wearing a light-colored hat and dark suit, seated on the left visible
  • man wearing a dark hat, white shirt, and suspenders, seated on the right visible
Seen happening
  • Two men are seated in a vehicle moving along a railway track. [frame:1]
  • The vehicle passes a water tower beside the railway. [frame:2]
  • The man on the left adjusts his hat while the man on the right looks ahead. [frame:3]
  • The vehicle is seen from a distance, moving away on a dirt road. [frame:4]
Seen
open-top vehicle [frame:1], railway track [frame:2], water tower [frame:2], dirt road [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: travel, railway setting, companion journey; style notes: black-and-white, wide shots, natural lighting, period costume

Two men in hats ride in an open-top vehicle along a railway track near a water tower. The vehicle is later seen from a distance, moving away on a dirt road.

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 51:02 (passage 51:01–51:16); US record: No renewal found

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