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The Lucky Texan · Beat 36 · permalink

Street

21:17–21:59 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 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 21:2721:27Frame at 21:4821:48

Play from 21:17 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 23 · shots 52–53. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat, dark shirt, and trousers, lunging forward visible
  • man in light shirt and dark trousers, raising hands, possibly being grabbed visible
  • man in cowboy hat and vest, standing with hands on hips visible
  • man in cowboy hat and dark coat, standing in background visible
  • man in cowboy hat, partially visible behind p2 visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cowboy hat lunges forward toward another man. [frame:1]
  • A man raises his hands while another man appears to grab or restrain him. [frame:2]
Also said
“Come on.” 21:54
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1], gun belt [frame:1], wooden bench [frame:1], doorway or building entrance [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, Western frontier, physical struggle; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, high-contrast lighting, Western genre framing

A man in a cowboy hat lunges forward while others watch; another man raises his hands as if surrendering or being restrained. The scene takes place outdoors in daylight with several men in period Western attire present.

“Yes.” 21:36 · “Come on!” 21:37 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 21:27 (passage 21:17–21:59); US record: No renewal found

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