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Sagebrush Trail · Beat 69 · permalink

Road

25:33–25:49 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 25:4125:41

Play from 25:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 48 · shots 110–110. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man standing on wagon, wearing cowboy hat, dark shirt and pants, holding gun visible
  • man seated, wearing light shirt and cowboy hat, holding reins visible
  • man seated, wearing light shirt and wide-brimmed hat, beside driver visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands on a wagon holding a gun while two others sit in front. [frame:1]
Also said
“Get rid of that gun.” 25:39 · “I'll throw off that money box.” 25:42
Seen
gun [frame:1], wagon [frame:1], cowboy hats [frame:1], reins [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, robbery, outlaw culture; style notes: medium shot, black and white, static framing, high contrast lighting

A man stands on a moving wagon holding a gun while two others sit in front; spoken lines suggest a robbery or confrontation with road agents. The scene includes dialogue about scaring road agents and discarding a gun and money box.

“Road agents haven't been very active lately, haven't they?” 25:33 · “Ah, we got them scared.” 25:36 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 25:41 (passage 25:33–25:49); US record: No renewal found

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