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Texas Terror · Beat 146 · permalink

Ranch

24:42–25:06 Registered 1935

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 24:4724:47Frame at 24:5924:59

Play from 24:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 84 · shots 276–277. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ranch (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Bob (named at t:24:45): older man, light shirt, bow tie, leaning on fence visible, audible
  • older man, cowboy hat, plaid shirt, vest with badge, standing visible, audible
Also said
“I'm going to raise horses and sell them to them.” 24:55 · “How does she like country and ranch life?” 25:00
Seen
{'item': 'wooden fence', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'cowboy hat', 'frame': 1}, {'item': "sheriff's badge", 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'bow tie', 'frame': 1}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual and conversational; themes: ranch life, post-law enforcement transition, community relationships; style notes: medium two-shot, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white, natural outdoor lighting

Two men converse outdoors near a wooden fence; one is identified as Bob, an ex-sheriff who plans to raise horses for the government. The dialogue mentions Miss Beth, Gordon, and Martha, and references life at Lacey Ells.

“- Where is it? - Hello, Bob.” 24:45 · “that three months and he's worked out a deal with the government. Uh-huh.” 24:52 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 Texas Terror (1935) at 24:47 (passage 24:42–25:06); US record: No renewal found

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