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Enter the Lone Ranger · Beat 14 · permalink

Field

4:08–5:13 Registered 1949

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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 4:174:17Frame at 4:494:49

Play from 4:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 11 · shots 28–29. 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, frame:2
People
  • man wearing a light-colored cowboy hat and dark jacket, kneeling visible, audible
  • man wearing a dark cowboy hat and patterned shirt, kneeling visible, audible
  • man on horseback, wearing a hat, riding away visible
  • Whitey (named at t:5:07): unseen speaker, audible during confrontation audible
Seen happening
  • Two men kneel and discuss scouting a canyon. [frame:1]
  • A man rides a horse up a hillside. [frame:2]
Also said
“Hold it, mister. Breach.” 5:03 · “Hello, Whitey” 5:07
Seen
cowboy hats, horses, horseback rider
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and suspenseful; themes: frontier justice, scouting and reconnaissance, confrontation; style notes: black-and-white, medium and long shots, natural outdoor lighting

Two men in cowboy hats discuss scouting a canyon; one rides ahead on horseback. Later, a man is confronted and addressed as 'Whitey' in a tense moment.

“Have you been in this vicinity before?” 4:09 · “I'll go ahead and scout the place.” 4:18 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 4:17 (passage 4:08–5:13); US record: No renewal found

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