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Enter the Lone Ranger · Beat 201 · permalink

Sheriff office

57:37–1:02:07 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; 7 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 59:4759:47Frame at 1:02:001:02:00Frame at 1:02:051:02:05

Play from 57:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 107 · shots 401–403. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sheriff_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
dawn evidence: t:60:22
Period
1880s evidence: t:58:47
People
  • man in cowboy hat and shirt, standing in doorway, holding gun visible
  • man in cowboy hat seated at desk, writing visible
  • Lone Ranger (named at t:61:56): man in wide-brimmed hat and mask, outdoors, holding reins visible
  • Tonto (named at t:61:56): man in bandana and shirt, outdoors, standing beside Lone Ranger visible
  • man in cowboy hat, outdoors, smiling visible
  • man in cowboy hat, outdoors, standing behind Lone Ranger visible
  • man in cowboy hat, outdoors, standing behind Tonto visible
Seen happening
  • A man enters a sheriff's office and speaks with another man seated at a desk. [frame:1]
  • A man in a cowboy hat stands outdoors smiling. [frame:2]
  • The Lone Ranger and Tonto stand outdoors with other men, preparing to act. [frame:3]
Also said
“He creeled in there with one man.” 59:12 · “You heard the mask, ma'am. Everything goes as we figured. We'll have the Cavendish gang locked up by sundown.” 61:56
Seen
desk, gun, cowboy hats, mask, reins, bandana
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: justice, collaboration, rebellion against corruption; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural lighting outdoors, high-contrast lighting indoors, Western costume and props

A group plans to arrest members of the Cavendish gang, starting with Creel in the sheriff's office. They move through town arresting suspects, including Keeler and Jessup, while the Lone Ranger and Tonto coordinate the operation.

“I sure hope Cleo didn't see us come in here.” 57:45 · “It will give Tata a chance to sneak over there and see if anyone else is in the office with Creel.” 57:54 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 59:47 (passage 57:37–1:02:07); US record: No renewal found

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