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Sagebrush Trail · Beat 17 · permalink

Field

4:35–5:32 Registered 1933

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; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 4:364:36Frame at 4:414:41Frame at 5:085:08

Play from 4:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 11 · shots 36–38. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • partially visible, wearing dark clothing, obscured by brush visible
  • indistinct figure behind a post in dim light visible
Seen happening
  • A person is partially visible among brush. [frame:1]
  • A body of water shows disturbance, possibly from a swimmer or object. [frame:2]
  • A figure is seen behind a post in a dimly lit interior space. [frame:3]
Also said
“Oh, my God.” 5:19 · “I don't see a sign of him anyplace.” 5:27
Seen
brush [frame:1], body of water [frame:2], post or pillar [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and uncertain; themes: hiding, searching, departure; style notes: high-contrast black and white, obscured figures, abrupt cuts between outdoor and interior shots

A person is seen partially hidden in brush, then a body of water with disturbance, and finally a dim interior with a figure behind a post. The transcript includes repeated statements of intent to leave and an exclamation of alarm.

“I'm going to go.” 4:37 · “I'm going to go.” 4:43 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 4:36 (passage 4:35–5:32); US record: No renewal found

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