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The Lucky Texan · Beat 67 · permalink

Field

31:33–32:02 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 31:3431:34Frame at 31:3931:39Frame at 31:4631:46Frame at 31:5731:57

Play from 31:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 41 · shots 105–110. 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
People
  • man lying on ground, wearing hat and coat visible
  • man on horseback, wearing hat and vest visible
  • man standing, wearing wide-brimmed hat and suspenders visible
Seen happening
  • A man lies on the ground with a dog sitting beside him. [frame:1]
  • A horse runs across the field. [frame:2]
  • A man on horseback is seen from behind. [frame:3]
  • A man in a hat stands holding a rope. [frame:4]
Also said
“Come on.” 31:34 · “All right.” 31:50
Seen
dog [frame:1], horse [frame:2], rope [frame:4], hat [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: rescue, outdoor peril, animal companionship; style notes: black-and-white, outdoor shots with natural lighting, medium to long shots, fast cuts between action

A man lies on the ground with a dog sitting beside him; later, a horse runs and a man in a hat appears holding a rope. The transcript includes cries and short commands.

“Ah!” 31:33 · “*crying*” 31:33 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 31:34 (passage 31:33–32:02); US record: No renewal found

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