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The Lucky Texan · Beat 89 · permalink

Bedroom

36:23–37:20 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 36:5136:51

Play from 36:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 57 · shots 137–137. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man standing, wearing suspenders and dark shirt, reaching into a trunk visible
  • Jake (named at t:36:46): man seated on bed, older, wearing light shirt, holding an object to his face visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man opens a trunk and retrieves items while another man sits on a bed. [frame:1]
Also said
“I wore that when I played in a show called Charlie's Ant.” 36:49 · “That's the thing that helped make Anna Held and Lillian Russell famous.” 36:58
Seen
trunk [frame:1], makeup case [t:36:24], bed [frame:1], theatrical souvenir [t:36:43]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted and conversational; themes: theatrical past, comedy of misunderstanding, intergenerational interaction; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white, studio lighting, period costume

A man retrieves items from a trunk while another man sits on a bed; they discuss theatrical makeup and costumes. One man mentions playing in a show called 'Charlie's Ant' and references Anna Held and Lillian Russell.

“Hey son, open up that trunk and get out my makeup case, will you?” 36:24 · “I didn't know you were an actor, Jake.” 36:46 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 36:51 (passage 36:23–37:20); US record: No renewal found

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