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The Lucky Texan · Beat 128 · permalink

Railroad tracks

51:30–51:51 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 51:3451:34Frame at 51:4451:44

Play from 51:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 86 · shots 201–202. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
railroad tracks (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • person on horse, wearing dark clothing, visible from behind visible
Seen happening
  • A person rides a white horse along railroad tracks. [frame:1]
  • The railroad tracks curve into the distance with no rider in view. [frame:2]
Seen
white horse [frame:1], railroad tracks [frame:1, frame:2], hills [frame:1, frame:2], utility pole [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solitary; themes: isolation, journey; style notes: wide shot, black and white, natural lighting, static camera

A person rides a white horse along a set of railroad tracks in a hilly, open landscape. The second frame shows the tracks curving into the distance with no rider visible.

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 51:34 (passage 51:30–51:51); US record: No renewal found

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