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The Lucky Texan · Beat 58 · permalink

Field

30:03–30:09 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 30:0630:06

Play from 30:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 34 · shots 90–90. 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
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a wide-brimmed hat and dark coat, seated on horseback visible
  • Justin (named at t:30:07): man wearing vest and tie, seated on horseback, holding reins visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men on horseback are visible in a dark outdoor setting. [frame:1]
Seen
horse [frame:1], wide-brimmed hat [frame:1], vest and tie [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or anticipatory; themes: arrival, timing, dialogue-driven moment; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, medium shot, night lighting

Two men on horseback are shown in a night scene; one speaks the name 'Justin' and mentions 'time.' No interior is visible, and no names are assigned beyond what is spoken.

“Just as we got here, Justin.” 30:07 · “time.” 30:09 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 30:06 (passage 30:03–30:09); US record: No renewal found

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