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The Lucky Texan · Beat 87 · permalink

Field

35:23–35:55 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; 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 35:2935:29Frame at 35:4535:45

Play from 35:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 55 · shots 134–135. 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
  • older man, wearing cowboy hat and dark shirt, appears unsteady visible, audible
  • younger man, wearing cowboy hat and dark shirt, standing upright visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The two men walk away together past a white picket fence. [frame:2]
Also said
“Who nicked you? I'll tell you all about it on the way home.” 35:32 · “Remember now, son, not a word to Betty.” 35:47
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1], white picket fence [frame:2], trees [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: concerned but resolved; themes: male camaraderie, secrecy, resilience; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, minimal set dressing

Two men in cowboy hats converse outdoors; one appears dizzy and is reassured by the other. They then walk away together, with instructions to remain silent about the incident to someone named Betty.

“What's the matter, old-timer?” 35:23 · “Oh, I'm only a little dizzy.” 35:26 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 35:29 (passage 35:23–35:55); US record: No renewal found

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