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The Lucky Texan · Beat 55 · permalink

Private office

28:53–29:09 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; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 29:0129:01

Play from 28:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 32 · shots 87–87. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a suit, tie, and wide-brimmed hat, standing visible
  • man wearing a vest and collared shirt, seated at a desk visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit and hat stands beside a seated man in a vest. [frame:1]
Seen
desk [frame:1], hanging lamp [frame:1], hat [frame:1], suit [frame:1], vest [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense anticipation; themes: deception, opportunism, waiting; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast studio lighting, minimal set design typical of 1930s B-westerns

A man in a suit and hat stands beside a seated man in a vest inside an office; dialogue indicates they are discussing someone named Benson who is away. The scene is set indoors with minimal props and studio lighting.

“Benson's out to his claim and he won't be back till late this afternoon.” 28:57 · “This is just what we've been waiting for.” 29:00 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 29:01 (passage 28:53–29:09); US record: No renewal found

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