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Enter the Lone Ranger · Beat 92 · permalink

Cave entrance near pool

15:47–16:27 Registered 1949

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 16:0716:07

Play from 15:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 59 · shots 148–148. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
cave entrance near pool (other, exterior) evidence: t:15:52
People
  • Tonto (named at t:15:52): man in fringed shirt and headband, appearing middle-aged, tending to another person visible, audible
  • the Ranger (named at t:16:00): injured man lying down, partially visible, wearing light-colored shirt visible, audible
Mentioned
  • Tonto unsaddles his horse and sets up camp near a cave entrance. [t:15:52]
  • Tonto cleanses and dresses the Ranger's wounds using his knowledge. [t:16:00]
  • The Ranger regains strength after several days of care. [t:16:15]
Also said
“The Ranger gradually regains his strength. He is going to live.” 16:15 · “How long have I been here now?” 16:25
Seen
fringed shirt [frame:1], headband [frame:1], wound dressing supplies [frame:1], rocky cave wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: quiet, somber, focused on recovery; themes: caregiving, survival, friendship across cultures; style notes: close framing on Tonto’s hands and face, high-contrast lighting emphasizing texture of rock and fabric, static camera

Tonto tends to the injured Lone Ranger at a cave campsite; the Ranger regains strength and speaks after several days. No names are visually confirmed beyond the transcript's reference to 'Tonto' and 'the Ranger'.

“Immediately, the Indian, Tonto, unsaddles his horse and sets up a camp at the entrance of the cave near the pool.” 15:52 · “The ranger's wounds are cleansed and expertly dressed by the Indian, who calls upon all the lore he knows.” 16:00 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 16:07 (passage 15:47–16:27); US record: No renewal found

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