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Enter the Lone Ranger · Beat 10 · permalink

Private office

2:52–3:14 Registered 1949

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; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 3:033:03

Play from 2:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 8 · shots 23–23. 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 and dark vest, seated, handing an object visible
  • man in light shirt and trousers, seated, receiving an object visible
  • partially visible person standing at right edge visible
Seen happening
  • Two men are seated at a table, one handing an object to the other. [frame:1]
Also said
“Bill, send Captain Reed to me. He's leading your detachment. Yes, sir.” 2:56 · “So came the half-breed Collins...” 3:01
Seen
wide-brimmed hat [frame:1], wooden table [frame:1], map on wall [frame:1], wooden chair [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and preparatory; themes: military preparation, frontier justice, narrated introduction of a character; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white, studio-lit interior with visible props suggesting a command post

Two men are seated inside a wooden room, one handing something to the other; dialogue refers to rations, a detachment, and the Cavendish gang. No names are spoken that identify the visible individuals.

“Boys, back five days rations.” 2:52 · “Got ten minutes to be in the saddle. Right.” 2:54 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 Enter the Lone Ranger (1949) at 3:03 (passage 2:52–3:14); US record: No renewal found

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