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Enter the Lone Ranger · Beat 81 · permalink

Rocky desert

12:15–12:41 Registered 1949

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: period without evidence, time_of_day without evidence. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 12:1612:16Frame at 12:2112:21Frame at 12:3512:35Frame at 12:3912:39

Play from 12:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 52 · shots 123–127. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
rocky desert (desert, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:4
People
  • man, wearing shirt and pants, lying on ground, appears weak or unconscious visible
Seen happening
  • The man is lying on the ground in a desert, struggling from weakness. [frame:2]
  • The man lies motionless, his strength possibly failing. [frame:4]
Also said
“which threatens to halt his progress. It is deathly hot. The sun beats down unmercifully.” 12:22 · “Ahead is that cooling, life-giving water...” 12:33
Seen
man's clothing, rocky ground, rock formation
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: desperate, exhausted; themes: survival, endurance, heat and thirst; style notes: high-contrast black and white, wide shots emphasizing isolation, static camera on prone figure

A man lies on the ground in a rocky, sun-baked landscape, struggling from weakness and heat. He is trying to reach water ahead, as stated in the transcript, but his strength is failing.

“His one aim is to reach water and shave.” 12:16 · “Desperately, he fights off the weakness from loss of blood.” 12:19 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 12:16 (passage 12:15–12:41); US record: No renewal found

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