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West of the Divide · Beat 122 · permalink

Porch

27:42–27:54 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 27:4827:48

Play from 27:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 75 · shots 199–199. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
porch (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark shirt, standing, grabbing boy visible
  • boy, seated, light shirt, being grabbed visible
  • man in hat and light shirt, standing, watching visible
Seen happening
  • A man grabs a boy by the collar. [frame:1]
  • A man in a hat stands nearby watching. [frame:1]
Also said
“All right, Jan.” 27:47 · “Let me go.” 27:48
Seen
wooden porch railing, wooden steps, hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, authority, childhood; style notes: medium shot, high contrast black and white, static framing

A man in a dark shirt grabs a seated boy by the collar while another man in a hat watches. A voice threatens to break bones if the boy is whipped again.

“If you ever whip that kid again, I'll break every bone in your carpet.” 27:43 · “Huh?” 27:46 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 27:48 (passage 27:42–27:54); US record: No renewal found

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