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The Lucky Texan · Beat 26 · permalink

Private office

17:00–17:15 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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 17:0317:03Frame at 17:0817:08Frame at 17:1217:12

Play from 17:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 18 · shots 35–37. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat, dark shirt, vest, and boots; medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man sits on a chair, smoking a cigarette. [frame:1]
  • The man stands in a doorway, adjusting his belt. [frame:2]
  • The man stands near a window, holding a cigarette. [frame:3]
Also said
“I'm going to go.” 17:04 · “Come on.” 17:08
Seen
cowboy hat [frame:1], cigarette [frame:1], wooden chair [frame:1], gun belt [frame:2], doorway with bars [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual and conversational; themes: Western, law enforcement, departure; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, period Western costume

A man in a cowboy hat and vest is seated and then stands in what appears to be an office interior; dialogue includes greetings and a statement of departure. No names are spoken that can be assigned to visible individuals.

“Howdy, Sheriff.” 17:01 · “Hello, man.” 17:02 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 17:03 (passage 17:00–17:15); US record: No renewal found

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