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West of the Divide · Beat 106 · permalink

Sidewalk

26:44–26:48 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 26:4626:46

Play from 26:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 61 · shots 181–181. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing dark shirt and pants, seen from back, mid-adult build visible
  • man wearing light shirt and tie, mid-adult, facing camera, mouth open, arms raised visible
Seen happening
  • Two men are fighting outside a wooden building. [frame:1]
Seen
wooden building with porch [frame:1], man's dark shirt and pants [frame:1], man's light shirt and tie [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict, outdoor confrontation; style notes: medium shot, black-and-white, high contrast lighting, static framing

Two men are engaged in a physical altercation outside a wooden building. One man is seen raising his arm as if to strike, while the other appears to be recoiling or defending himself.

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 26:46 (passage 26:44–26:48); US record: No renewal found

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