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The Lucky Texan · Beat 39 · permalink

Town square

22:43–22:55 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 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 22:4722:47Frame at 22:5322:53

Play from 22:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 58–59. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
town_square (town square, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat and light shirt, seen from back visible
  • man in dark shirt and pants, standing near doorway visible
  • man crouching or falling on ground visible
  • man leaping from porch onto horse visible
  • unspecified speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cowboy hat stands among a group outside a building. [frame:1]
  • A man leaps from the porch of a building onto a horse. [frame:2]
Seen
sign reading 'GENERAL MERCHANDISE RANCHERS SUPPLIES', horse, porch, cowboy hats
On screen
GENERAL MERCHANDISE RANCHERS SUPPLIES
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, action, Western setting; style notes: wide shot, outdoor daylight, static camera, period Western costume

A man in a cowboy hat stands among others outside a building labeled 'GENERAL MERCHANDISE RANCHERS SUPPLIES' while another man leaps from the building's porch onto a horse. A voice asks 'What? What is your way?' during the scene.

“Yeah.” 22:51 · “What? What is your way?” 22:52 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 22:47 (passage 22:43–22:55); US record: No renewal found

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