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The Lucky Texan · Beat 44 · permalink

Field

23:16–23:43 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; 3 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 23:2123:21Frame at 23:2923:29Frame at 23:3523:35Frame at 23:4023:40

Play from 23:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 26 · shots 64–67. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat and shirt, visible in group near tree visible
  • man wearing cowboy hat and vest, standing near tree visible
  • man wearing wide-brimmed hat and light shirt, gesturing near tree visible
  • man on horseback, seen from distance in rough terrain visible
  • man on horseback on ridge, with dog nearby visible
Seen happening
  • A group of men in cowboy attire stands near a tree in a dusty field. [frame:1]
  • Men in cowboy hats gather near a tree, one gesturing. [frame:2]
  • A man on horseback moves across rough, dusty ground. [frame:3]
  • A man on horseback is seen on a rocky ridge with a dog nearby. [frame:4]
Also said
“Come on.” 23:40
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:2], tree [frame:2], horses [frame:3, frame:4], dog [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: departure, western setting, group movement; style notes: black-and-white, wide shots of outdoor terrain, medium group shot under tree, high-contrast lighting

A group of men in cowboy attire gathers near a tree in a dusty outdoor setting, then a man on horseback is seen moving across rough terrain. A separate shot shows a lone rider on a ridge with a dog nearby. No names are spoken, and no indoor setting is shown.

“I'm going to go.” 23:20 · “Come on.” 23:38 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 23:21 (passage 23:16–23:43); US record: No renewal found

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