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Sagebrush Trail · Beat 176 · permalink

Field

51:10–51:41 Registered 1933

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 51:2151:21Frame at 51:3651:36

Play from 51:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 120 · shots 305–306. 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
  • indistinct figures near a vehicle, seen from a distance visible
Seen happening
  • Figures are visible near a vehicle in a dusty field. [frame:1]
  • Brush and dust are visible in the foreground. [frame:2]
Also said
“Oh, my God.” 51:28
Seen
vehicle [frame:1], brush [frame:2], dust [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: pursuit, outdoor action; style notes: wide shot, low contrast, dusty atmosphere, black and white

Two frames show a dusty outdoor scene with figures near a vehicle and brush; the transcript includes urgent dialogue. No names, time of day, or interior setting are established.

“Come on.” 51:12 · “There's another one up ahead!” 51:27 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 51:21 (passage 51:10–51:41); US record: No renewal found

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