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Enter the Lone Ranger · Beat 97 · permalink

Field

19:50–20:10 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; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 19:5419:54Frame at 20:0120:01Frame at 20:0620:06

Play from 19:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 62 · shots 159–161. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Lone Ranger (named at t:20:00): man wearing a white cowboy hat, black eye mask, and a dark neckerchief over a light shirt visible, audible
  • Tom (named at t:19:50): man wearing a fringed shirt and a dark headband visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The masked man is shown in a close-up, looking somber. [frame:1]
  • Tom is shown in a close-up, looking at the masked man. [frame:2]
  • The masked man is shown again, confirming his new identity. [frame:3]
Also said
“All alone now. Last man. You are a lone ranger.” 20:00 · “I am... A lone ranger.” 20:06
Seen
white cowboy hat [frame:1], black eye mask [frame:1], fringed shirt [frame:2], dark headband [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn and resolved; themes: identity, loss, solitude; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, natural outdoor lighting, static framing

A masked man in a white hat and a man in a fringed shirt are shown in an outdoor setting. The transcript reveals the masked man is accepting the identity of 'lone ranger' after the death of his brother and friends.

“Only you, Tom, will know I'm alive.” 19:50 · “Beside my brother and my friends...” 19:55 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 19:54 (passage 19:50–20:10); US record: No renewal found

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