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Sagebrush Trail · Beat 111 · permalink

Shop

37:21–37:34 Registered 1933

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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 37:2337:23Frame at 37:2937:29

Play from 37:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 75 · shots 182–183. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
shop (shop, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • Miss Sally (named at t:37:26): woman with dark hair, wearing a light-colored blouse visible, audible
  • Sheriff (named at t:37:26): man in dark suit and hat, holding papers visible, audible
  • man in vest and cowboy hat, standing with hands behind back visible
  • man in light shirt, standing behind counter visible
Seen happening
  • The woman looks down, appearing hesitant or thoughtful. [frame:1]
  • The sheriff holds papers and speaks to the woman while two men stand nearby. [frame:2]
Also said
“I wanted you to identify a couple of men for me.” 37:27 · “Were these the two men who were in the store the day of the holdup?” 37:30
Seen
shelves with bottles and jars [frame:1, frame:2], paper documents [frame:2], wooden barrels [frame:2], glass display jars [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and formal; themes: law enforcement, witness identification, small-town justice; style notes: medium shots, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of early 1930s cinema

A woman is asked by a sheriff to identify two men in a store. The scene takes place inside a shop with shelves of goods visible.

“Did you want something, Sheriff?” 37:24 · “Why, yes, Miss Sally.” 37:26 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 Sagebrush Trail (1933) at 37:23 (passage 37:21–37:34); US record: No renewal found

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