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The Lucky Texan · Beat 99 · permalink

Street

40:18–40:36 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 40:2740:27

Play from 40:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 66 · shots 147–147. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing wide-brimmed hat, vest, light shirt visible
  • man wearing fedora-style hat, dark coat visible
Seen happening
  • One man hands an object to another man. [frame:1]
Seen
wide-brimmed hat [frame:1], fedora-style hat [frame:1], vest [frame:1], dark coat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: exchange, mystery; style notes: close two-shot, high contrast lighting, black and white film

Two men in hats are shown in a close interaction; one appears to be handing something to the other. A line spoken at 40:19 refers to someone taking something off a borough before arrival.

“He must have taken it off the borough before we got there.” 40:19 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 40:27 (passage 40:18–40:36); US record: No renewal found

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