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Sagebrush Trail · Beat 27 · permalink

River

6:59–7:35 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; 3 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 7:047:04Frame at 7:187:18Frame at 7:297:29Frame at 7:347:34

Play from 6:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 17 · shots 52–55. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
river (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in cowboy hat, vest, and light shirt, standing on riverbank visible, audible
  • Smith (named at t:7:31): man in dark shirt, wet, emerging from river visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cowboy hat stands on a riverbank while another man is in the water. [frame:1]
  • The man on the bank pulls the wet man out of the river. [frame:2]
  • The two men stand face to face on the riverbank. [frame:3]
  • The wet man smiles at the camera. [frame:4]
Also said
“Smith, ain't it?” 7:31 · “That's the handle most of you fast travelers use.” 7:32
Seen
cowboy hat, river, dark shirt, vest
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but shifting to camaraderie; themes: encounter between strangers, identity and aliases, Western frontier dynamics; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, classic Western framing

Two men interact near a river; one helps the other out of the water, and they speak. One man is asked for his name, and 'Smith' is suggested as a common alias for travelers.

“Well?” 7:07 · “I guess you got me.” 7:09 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 7:04 (passage 6:59–7:35); US record: No renewal found

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