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Sagebrush Trail · Beat 8 · permalink

Town square

2:16–2:37 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 2:172:17Frame at 2:192:19Frame at 2:282:28Frame at 2:332:33

Play from 2:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 8 · shots 8–12. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
town_square (town square, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man, dark clothing, short hair, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • man crouches and looks forward [frame:1]
  • horses stand tethered outside a building [frame:2]
  • man stands with arms outstretched inside a building [frame:3]
  • man stands beside a freight car with one arm raised [frame:4]
Also said
“There he goes.” 2:29
Seen
horses [frame:2], freight car [frame:4], building with porch [frame:2], barrels [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: departure, movement, Western setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, outdoor daylight scenes, static camera

A man in dark clothing is seen in various outdoor locations including near horses and a freight car. He moves from a crouched position to standing and gesturing, while dialogue indicates he is about to leave.

“I'm going to go to the next one.” 2:17 · “I'm going to go.” 2:27 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 2:17 (passage 2:16–2:37); US record: No renewal found

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