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Sagebrush Trail · Beat 81 · permalink

Private office

29:48–30:11 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 30:0030:00

Play from 29:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 56 · shots 136–136. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat, white shirt, dark vest, and belt; medium build visible, audible
  • man wearing dark shirt, neckerchief, and belt with holster; medium build visible, audible
Also said
“I'd sort of suspect you myself, but hadn't been for the wake the other night.” 30:04 · “Well, maybe I did rob the stage.” 30:07
Seen
cowboy hat, holster belt, wooden door, neckerchief
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and accusatory; themes: suspicion, Western justice, alibi; style notes: medium two-shot, static framing, high-contrast studio lighting typical of 1930s Westerns

Two men in Western attire stand indoors and speak; one suggests the other may have robbed a stagecoach. The dialogue implies suspicion and a recent wake.

“Well, I didn't expect to see you here, partner.” 29:51 · “Fact is, the boys kind of think you did it.” 30:00 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 30:00 (passage 29:48–30:11); US record: No renewal found

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