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The Lucky Texan · Beat 45 · permalink

Field

23:43–24:00 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 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 23:4923:49Frame at 23:5823:58

Play from 23:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 26 · shots 68–69. 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
  • person standing on rocks, wearing dark clothing, visible from a distance visible
  • silhouetted figure walking under a structure, wearing dark clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A person stands on rocks in a dimly lit outdoor area. [frame:1]
  • A figure walks under a structure casting long shadows. [frame:2]
Seen
rocks [frame:1], structure casting shadows [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber; themes: departure, isolation; style notes: high-contrast black and white, silhouetted figures, dramatic shadows

A person stands on rocks in a dimly lit outdoor setting, then a figure walks under a structure casting long shadows. The transcript contains a single line indicating intent to leave.

“I'm going to go.” 23:45 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 23:49 (passage 23:43–24:00); US record: No renewal found

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