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West of the Divide · Beat 104 · permalink

Private office

26:31–26:40 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 26:3626:36

Play from 26:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 59 · shots 179–179. 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
  • Victor Westham (named at t:26:36): man, middle-aged, wearing plaid shirt and dark vest, with a bandana or neckerchief visible, audible
Seen
wooden shelves or beams [frame:1], bandana or neckerchief [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, succession, personal accountability; style notes: medium close-up, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film stock, static framing

A man in a vest and plaid shirt is visible in a dimly lit interior setting. He speaks about someone named Victor Westham and suggests it is now another person's turn.

“I've had Victor Westham...” 26:36 · “Now I reckon it's your turn.” 26:38 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 26:36 (passage 26:31–26:40); US record: No renewal found

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