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The Lucky Texan · Beat 3 · permalink

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2:04–2:17 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 2:102:10Frame at 2:162:16

Play from 2:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 2 · shots 7–8. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • man with mustache, wearing a collared shirt and vest visible
  • man wearing a wide-brimmed hat, dark neckerchief, and shirt; smiling visible
Also said
“Itch and you get to work, eh?” 2:08 · “opening up the blacksmith shop, but...” 2:13
Seen
tree trunk [frame:1], wide-brimmed hat [frame:2], neckerchief [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: conversational and slightly humorous; themes: business planning, Western frontier life; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, natural outdoor lighting, period Western attire

Two men discuss reopening a business, possibly a blacksmith shop, while standing outdoors near trees. One man wears a hat and smiles; the other has a mustache and appears to be listening or speaking.

“Can we stock it up again?” 2:04 · “Starting some other business?” 2:06 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 2:10 (passage 2:04–2:17); US record: No renewal found

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