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32:05–32:17 Registered 1935

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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 32:0732:07Frame at 32:1332:13

Play from 32:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 90 · shots 333–334. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1, frame:2
Period
1930s evidence: t:32:05
People
  • man wearing dark clothing, partially visible behind a wooden post visible
  • man wearing a cowboy hat and dark jacket, standing near a wooden structure visible
Seen happening
  • A man is partially visible behind a wooden post. [frame:1]
  • A man in a cowboy hat stands near a wooden structure while another man emerges from behind it. [frame:2]
Also said
“The chief said wait till the milking contest's on.” 32:09 · “There won't be anybody leaving, we won't be seen.” 32:12
Seen
wooden post or fence, cowboy hat, dark jacket
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: crime planning, stealth, rural setting; style notes: black-and-white, low-key lighting emphasizing shadows and concealment, medium shots framing characters near vertical wooden elements

Two men are seen near a wooden structure at night; one is partially hidden behind a post while the other, wearing a cowboy hat, stands nearby. The transcript indicates a plan to break in and steal money during a milking contest to avoid being seen.

“the dance goal we have to do is break in and” 32:05 · “Grab the money and feed it.” 32:08 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 32:07 (passage 32:05–32:17); US record: No renewal found

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