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The Lucky Texan · Beat 56 · permalink

Forest

29:09–29:44 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; 4 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 29:2729:27

Play from 29:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 33 · shots 88–88. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing hat and vest, kneeling beside horse visible, audible
  • Brady (named at t:29:32): unseen, addressed as Brady mentioned, audible
  • Jerry (named at t:29:20): unseen, mentioned as Jerry mentioned
  • Betty (named at t:29:23): unseen, mentioned as Betty mentioned
Seen happening
  • A man kneels beside a horse in a wooded area. [frame:1]
Also said
“Won't he and Betty be surprised when they hear that?” 29:23 · “Come on, Brady.” 29:32
Seen
horse [frame:1], hat [frame:1], vest [frame:1], rocks or nuggets on ground [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted, conspiratorial; themes: discovery, secret knowledge, comedy; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, natural outdoor lighting, period costume

A man kneels beside a horse in a wooded outdoor setting while speaking about nuggets and surprising Jerry and Betty. Another character, Brady, is addressed directly at the end of the segment.

“There's nuggets.” 29:18 · “that Jerry don't know nothing about.” 29:20 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 29:27 (passage 29:09–29:44); US record: No renewal found

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