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West of the Divide · Beat 102 · permalink

Town square

26:12–26:26 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: visible event not seen. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names 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 26:1326:13Frame at 26:1626:16Frame at 26:2026:20Frame at 26:2426:24

Play from 26:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 58 · shots 174–177. 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:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • man in cowboy hat and dark shirt, visible in frames 2 and 4 visible
  • man in cowboy hat and light shirt, visible in frames 3 and 4 visible
  • man in cowboy hat and dark coat, visible in frame 4 visible
  • unseen speaker, audible in transcript audible
Seen happening
  • A man descends wooden steps from a porch. [frame:1]
  • Two men stand near horses in a fenced area. [frame:2]
  • A man walks down steps from a porch. [frame:3]
  • Two men run toward horses in a fenced area. [frame:4]
Also said
“What?” 26:17 · “- Help us! - You're good now. - Oh, please, bud! - I'll fix the video. Look out!” 26:20
Seen
wooden porch, horses, fence, cowboy hats, saddles
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: conflict, desperation, Western frontier; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, outdoor daylight setting, Western genre framing with horses and wooden structures

Two men in cowboy attire are seen near horses outside a wooden building; one man descends steps while another runs toward the horses. Dialogue includes a plea for help and a mention of money and children, followed by whistling and a warning.

“I couldn't help it, more dollars! I couldn't have a child!” 26:12 · “*whistling*” 26:15 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 West of the Divide (1934) at 26:13 (passage 26:12–26:26); US record: No renewal found

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