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The Lucky Texan · Beat 34 · permalink

Private office

20:25–20:54 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; 3 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 20:3920:39

Play from 20:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 49–49. 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 in dark suit and fedora, facing p2 visible, audible
  • Miller (named at t:20:39): man in light shirt, vest, and cowboy hat, holding money visible, audible
  • man in dark shirt and cowboy hat, standing with hands on hips visible
Also said
“Well, I'm making it my business because that's part of the money Jake Benson paid the banker.” 20:43 · “It's none of your business.” 20:50
Seen
money [frame:1], cowboy hats [frame:1], wooden wall and door [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict over money, personal accountability, confrontation in private space; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, period Western costumes, confined framing

Three men in hats stand in a wooden interior; one holds money while another questions its origin. The dialogue reveals a dispute over funds tied to a banker and a person named Jake Benson.

“Did Al Miller give you this money?” 20:28 · “Where'd you get that money, Miller?” 20:39 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 20:39 (passage 20:25–20:54); US record: No renewal found

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