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The Lucky Texan · Beat 90 · permalink

Private office

37:20–38:10 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 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 37:4537:45

Play from 37:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 58 · shots 138–138. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a wide-brimmed hat, sleeveless vest, and light shirt, standing left visible
  • man in dark shirt and belt, standing center, facing forward visible
  • Mason (named at t:37:22): man wearing a hat and dark suit, standing right, facing left visible
Also said
“Well, maybe Benson didn't tell you, but we bought this ranch a few days ago.” 37:40 · “That'll be fine. We're anxious to get started on the improvements on the place.” 37:59
Seen
wide-brimmed hat, sleeveless vest, dark shirt, belt, dark suit
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: property dispute, Western frontier, negotiation; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, period Western costume

Three men in Western attire stand in an interior space, discussing the purchase of a ranch. One man questions the legitimacy of the sale and asks for a bill of sale, while another suggests sending someone named Jake to advise on when they can take possession.

“Hello, Mason.” 37:22 · “We just called to find out when we could take possession of this ranch.” 37:32 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 37:45 (passage 37:20–38:10); US record: No renewal found

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