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Texas Terror · Beat 300 · permalink

Private office

48:20–48:29 Registered 1935

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote 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 48:2248:22Frame at 48:2748:27

Play from 48:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 169 · shots 533–534. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat, dark shirt, and belt with holster visible
  • woman with blonde hair, wearing striped dress with dark collar visible
Seen happening
  • man in cowboy hat holds telephone receiver to ear [frame:1]
  • riders approach through open gate on dirt path [frame:2]
Seen
wall-mounted telephone, wooden gate, dirt path, horseback riders
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: communication failure, approaching threat; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costume

A man in a cowboy hat uses a wall-mounted telephone while a woman in a striped dress stands nearby; a separate shot shows a gate opening to a dirt path with riders approaching. The transcript notes no answer at the sheriff's office.

“No answer at the sheriff's office.” 48:22 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 48:22 (passage 48:20–48:29); US record: No renewal found

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