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Sagebrush Trail · Beat 141 · permalink

Field

44:07–44:27 Registered 1933

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 44:1144:11Frame at 44:1644:16Frame at 44:2044:20Frame at 44:2544:25

Play from 44:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 98 · shots 234–237. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(field, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:4
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat and dark shirt, crouching near rocks visible
  • man in white shirt on horseback, leading group visible
  • man in dark coat on horseback, part of group visible
  • Sheriff (named at t:44:11): unspecified person audible
  • Brad (named at t:44:11): unspecified person mentioned
  • Wolfgang (named at t:44:11): unspecified person mentioned
Seen happening
  • A man rides a horse along a dusty trail. [frame:1]
  • A group of riders on horseback moves forward, led by a man in a white shirt. [frame:2]
  • Riders are partially obscured by dust and trees. [frame:3]
  • A man in a cowboy hat crouches near rocks, holding a gun. [frame:4]
Seen
horse [frame:1], cowboy hat [frame:4], gun [frame:4], dust cloud [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: ambush, western confrontation, urgent warning; style notes: black-and-white, outdoor action sequence with medium and long shots, natural lighting, dust effects for motion

A rider on horseback is seen approaching, followed by a group of riders in a dusty outdoor setting; one man in a cowboy hat is shown crouching near rocks. A voice warns the sheriff that someone named Wolfgang plans to ambush Brad at an abandoned mine.

“Oh!” 44:08 · “Oh, Sheriff, the Wolfgang is going to ambush Brad up at the abandoned mine.” 44:11 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 44:11 (passage 44:07–44:27); US record: No renewal found

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