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Sagebrush Trail · Beat 85 · permalink

Private office

31:09–31:22 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 31:1031:10Frame at 31:1331:13Frame at 31:1831:18

Play from 31:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 56 · shots 148–150. 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, seated visible
  • man wearing dark shirt, seated, belt with buckle visible visible
Also said
“I suppose it was in all the papers.” 31:17 · “Funny, I never saw one after I left.” 31:20
Seen
cowboy hat, dark vest, chair, belt with buckle
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: conversational, slightly guarded; themes: media coverage, information access, post-event reflection; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, studio set with minimal props

Two men are seated in an interior space, one in a cowboy hat and vest, the other in a dark shirt; they discuss newspaper coverage of an event. No names are spoken, and no on-screen text or objects beyond furniture are visible.

“What do you want to know for? I think I read about it in the paper.” 31:11 · “Yeah.” 31:15 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 31:10 (passage 31:09–31:22); US record: No renewal found

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