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Enter the Lone Ranger · Beat 175 · permalink

Private office

47:46–48:06 Registered 1949

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 47:5647:56

Play from 47:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 95 · shots 352–352. 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 cowboy hat and vest with star badge, cleaning a gun visible
  • man wearing cowboy hat and jacket, sitting with hands clasped visible
  • unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A man cleans a gun while seated. [frame:1]
  • Another man sits watching. [frame:1]
Seen
gun [frame:1], sheriff's star badge [frame:1], wooden wall and window [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: law enforcement, impending violence, duty; style notes: medium two-shot, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting emphasizing faces and props

Two men sit in a wooden interior; one cleans a gun while the other watches. A voice off-screen asks which of them is the sheriff's assistant, referencing recent shootings in Colby and an expectation of more violence tonight.

“The way you keep on cleaning that gun, Corey, you must be figuring on using it soon. Nothing like being prepared. Might a lot have been going on around Colby lately, and the shooting's only just begun. Freel says there's going to be more of it tonight.” 47:48 · “Which one of you is sheriff's assistant?” 48:04 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 47:56 (passage 47:46–48:06); US record: No renewal found

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