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The Lucky Texan · Beat 54 · permalink

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28:32–28:53 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 28:4328:43

Play from 28:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 32 · shots 86–86. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, light-colored dress, dark belt, light hair visible
  • man, dark suit, wide-brimmed hat visible
Seen happening
  • A woman and a man stand facing each other on a porch. [frame:1]
Also said
“He went to his claim this morning.” 28:44 · “But he'll be back this afternoon.” 28:46
Seen
wooden porch, wide-brimmed hat, dark suit, light-colored dress
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, conversational; themes: absence, waiting, rural life; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting typical of 1930s Westerns

A man and a woman stand on a wooden porch during a conversation about Jake Benson's whereabouts. The woman learns he has gone to his claim and will return in the afternoon.

“Is Jake Benson around?” 28:41 · “Why, no.” 28:43 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 28:43 (passage 28:32–28:53); US record: No renewal found

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