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Enter the Lone Ranger · Beat 176 · permalink

Private office

48:06–49:30 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 48:4848:48

Play from 48:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 95 · shots 353–353. 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 dark hat and light vest with a badge, seated visible, audible
  • man wearing a dark hat and shirt, seated visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men are seated and talking in a wooden room. [frame:1]
Mentioned
  • An 'Indian' is said to have come looking for the sheriff, according to the transcript. [t:48:06]
Also said
“Seems to me this Redskin's getting a little ornery, Corey. Should I throw him in jail? No, they can go.” 48:46 · “Say, Corey, do you think he was on a level about the sheriff being on Cavendish's trail? Of course he was on the level. Why do you think I signed to protect Cavendish?” 49:02
Seen
wooden wall, hat, vest with badge
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: authority vs. deception, conspiracy, Western frontier justice; style notes: medium two-shot, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, period Western costumes

A man in a vest and hat speaks with another man in a hat inside a wooden room; the transcript reveals a confrontation about an 'Indian' claiming to represent Sheriff Taylor and seeking Creel, while the men discuss protecting Butch Cavendish and preventing the 'Indian' from returning to the sheriff.

“There's an orphan of Redskin comes looking for the sheriff.” 48:06 · “You're lying, Indian. Everybody around here knows that Cav and Dish Gang is nowhere around here.” 48:25 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 48:48 (passage 48:06–49:30); US record: No renewal found

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