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The Lucky Texan · Beat 130 · permalink

Railroad tracks

52:09–52:30 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 52:1452:14Frame at 52:2452:24

Play from 52:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 86 · shots 208–209. 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:2
People
  • man wearing dark jacket and trousers, standing visible
  • man wearing light shirt and dark trousers, on ground visible
Seen happening
  • A man in dark clothing stands over another man who is on the ground. [frame:1]
  • The standing man gestures toward the man on the ground near railroad tracks. [frame:2]
Seen
railroad tracks, wagon, hat on ground
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, outdoor setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting

Two men are shown in an outdoor setting near railroad tracks; one man is on the ground while the other stands over him. A wagon and trees are visible in the background.

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 52:14 (passage 52:09–52:30); US record: No renewal found

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