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Sagebrush Trail · Beat 7 · permalink

Railroad yard

2:03–2:16 Registered 1933

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 names 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 2:102:10

Play from 2:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 7 · shots 7–7. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
railroad yard (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light-colored pants and dark shirt, holding a rifle visible
  • man in dark suit and hat, walking along tracks visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands beside a freight car holding a rifle. [frame:1]
  • Another man walks along the train tracks. [frame:1]
Seen
freight train cars [frame:1], rifle [frame:1], train tracks [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, railroad setting; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast black and white, studio lighting on outdoor set

A man stands beside a freight train car while another walks along the tracks. The train cars are marked with 'SP' and numbers.

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 2:10 (passage 2:03–2:16); US record: No renewal found

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