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The Lucky Texan · Beat 127 · permalink

Road

51:16–51:30 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 51:1951:19Frame at 51:2451:24Frame at 51:2851:28

Play from 51:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 86 · shots 198–200. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(road, exterior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • person in light-colored pants and dark top, walking away from camera visible
  • driver in open-top car, wearing hat visible
  • person near train, indistinct visible
Seen happening
  • A person walks away from a fence toward a wooded area. [frame:1]
  • A car drives from left to right on a dirt road. [frame:2]
  • A train is stopped or moving slowly near railroad tracks with mountains in the background. [frame:3]
Seen
fence [frame:1], open-top car [frame:2], railroad tracks [frame:3], train [frame:3], mountains [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: transitional, with departure implied; themes: departure, travel, rural landscape; style notes: black-and-white, wide shots, natural lighting, outdoor setting

A person walks away from a fence as a car drives past; a train is visible near railroad tracks in a mountainous area. No names or specific time of day are established.

“I'm going to go.” 51:20 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 51:19 (passage 51:16–51:30); US record: No renewal found

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