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Sagebrush Trail · Beat 37 · permalink

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14:16–15:07 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 14:4214:42

Play from 14:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 24 · shots 69–69. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat, light shirt, dark vest, belt with buckle; medium build, appears 30s-40s visible, audible
  • man wearing cowboy hat, light shirt, dark vest; medium build, appears 30s-40s visible, audible
Also said
“Well, Smith and I will pull that ourselves.” 14:41 · “All right, pick him up down at the trail at noon.” 14:45
Seen
cowboy hats, vests, belt with buckle
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but pragmatic; themes: trust, risk, partnership, Western frontier; style notes: medium two-shot, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static framing, period Western costume

Two men in cowboy hats discuss a person named Smith, debating his character and planning a risky job together. One man vouches for Smith’s integrity and proposes they undertake a safe job alone, with instructions to meet at noon and a fallback location if trouble arises.

“Just who is this fellow you call Smith?” 14:17 · “I know his name ain't Smith.” 14:21 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 14:42 (passage 14:16–15:07); US record: No renewal found

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