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The Lucky Texan · Beat 82 · permalink

Field

34:05–34:12 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 34:0934:09

Play from 34:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 51 · shots 129–129. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • seen from behind, wearing a light shirt and dark trousers, possibly male visible
  • light-colored clothing, possibly female, facing away visible
  • distant rider on horseback, silhouette visible
Seen
horse-drawn vehicle [frame:1], tree canopy [frame:1], distant rider on horse [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, anticipatory; themes: outdoor setting, dialogue-driven moment, western genre; style notes: medium shot, high contrast black and white, silhouetted figures against bright background

Two figures stand outdoors near a horse-drawn vehicle; one figure is seen from behind, wearing a shirt and trousers, while the other, in lighter clothing, faces away. A distant rider is visible on the horizon. The transcript contains the word 'Friday' spoken twice.

“Friday!” 34:08 · “Friday.” 34:10 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 34:09 (passage 34:05–34:12); US record: No renewal found

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