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The Lucky Texan · Beat 19 · permalink

Street

14:12–15:28 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 6 names 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 14:1314:13Frame at 14:5214:52

Play from 14:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 12 · shots 27–28. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man wearing a hat and dark shirt, visible in frame 2 visible
  • man wearing a hat and vest, visible in frame 2 visible
  • Jake (named at t:14:17): unseen speaker audible
  • Dad (named at t:14:29): unseen speaker audible
  • Al (named at t:14:58): unseen speaker audible
  • Yomi (named at t:15:02): unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A hand holds an envelope addressed to 'Betty Benson'. [frame:1]
  • Two men in hats stand near a brick wall with a bulletin board. [frame:2]
Also said
“Hey, Al.” 14:58 · “If you don't kick through that dough, Yomi, I'm telling the town everything.” 15:02
Seen
envelope, bulletin board, brick wall, hats
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and transactional; themes: economic hardship, family obligation, threats and coercion; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, naturalistic lighting, period costume

Two men in hats stand near a brick wall with a bulletin board; one holds an envelope addressed to 'Betty Benson'. Dialogue suggests financial pressure and threats related to a town official's position.

“I think it's a good investment, Jake.” 14:17 · “Hello, Dad.” 14:29 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 14:13 (passage 14:12–15:28); US record: No renewal found

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