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The Lucky Texan · Beat 46 · permalink

Field

24:00–24:19 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 24:0224:02Frame at 24:0824:08Frame at 24:1224:12Frame at 24:1824:18

Play from 24:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 26 · shots 70–75. 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, frame:3
People
  • person riding a horse, wearing light-colored shirt and dark pants; appears adult visible
  • person walking under structure, wearing dark clothing; appears adult visible
Seen happening
  • A person rides a horse across open terrain. [frame:1]
  • The person dismounts and walks away from the horse. [frame:3]
  • The person walks under a structure casting slatted shadows. [frame:4]
Seen
horse [frame:1], structure with slatted shadows [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: movement, departure, open space; style notes: high-contrast black and white, wide shots, dynamic movement, slatted shadow patterns

A person rides a horse across open terrain, then dismounts and walks under a structure with slatted shadows. The transcript includes the lines 'Come on.' and 'I'm going to go.'

“Come on.” 24:03 · “I'm going to go.” 24:11 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 24:02 (passage 24:00–24:19); US record: No renewal found

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