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The Lucky Texan · Beat 50 · permalink

Bar

26:14–27:11 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 26:4226:42

Play from 26:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 29 · shots 80–80. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a hat and dark vest, visible from back and side visible
  • man wearing a hat and light shirt, visible from back visible
  • man in dark uniform or coat, standing in doorway visible
  • man wearing a hat, partially visible on right visible
  • Sheriff (named at t:26:29): unseen speaker, referenced as 'Sheriff' in transcript audible, mentioned
  • Betty (named at t:26:55): unseen speaker, referenced as 'Betty' audible, mentioned
Also said
“Because Betty's home waiting for you. Betty?” 26:55 · “- Ready. - Well, well, well, well.” 27:06
Seen
hats [frame:1], wooden walls [frame:1], doorway [frame:1], sign on wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: confrontation, money, domestic tension, authority; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, period Western attire, minimal set design

A group of men in hats stand in a dimly lit interior space; one man speaks to another, mentioning Betty and a sheriff, while another line references meat cages. No names are visually confirmed, and the setting appears to be a saloon or office with wooden walls and a doorway.

“I'm sorry, Benton.” 26:19 · “Here's the rest of the bank's money, Sheriff.” 26:29 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 26:42 (passage 26:14–27:11); US record: No renewal found

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