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The Lucky Texan · Beat 129 · permalink

Railroad tracks

51:51–52:09 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 51:5351:53Frame at 51:5751:57Frame at 52:0252:02Frame at 52:0652:06

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

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 86 · shots 203–207. 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, frame:4
People
  • man wearing a suit and wide-brimmed hat, medium build visible
  • person lying on ground, clothing indistinct visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands over another person lying on the ground near railroad tracks. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit and hat looks toward the camera while standing on railroad tracks. [frame:2]
  • The same man in a suit and hat is shown again, still on the tracks. [frame:3]
  • A vehicle is parked on the railroad tracks; a person in a hat lies on the ground nearby. [frame:4]
Seen
railroad tracks [frame:1, frame:4], vehicle [frame:4], wide-brimmed hat [frame:2, frame:4], suit [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: danger, accident, confrontation; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white, dramatic framing of figures against tracks

A man in a suit and hat stands near railroad tracks as another person lies on the ground nearby; a vehicle is parked on the tracks. A line of dialogue expresses shock.

“Oh, my God.” 51:55 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 51:53 (passage 51:51–52:09); US record: No renewal found

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