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West of the Divide · Beat 14 · permalink

Field

4:15–4:32 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 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 4:234:23

Play from 4:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 9 · shots 21–21. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing dark cowboy hat and dark shirt, kneeling, facing right visible
  • man wearing dark cowboy hat and dark shirt, kneeling, facing left, touching the prone man visible
  • man lying on ground, wearing dark pants and shirt, face not visible visible
Seen happening
  • Two men kneel beside a third man lying on the ground. [frame:1]
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1], gun belt with bullets [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, injury, western; style notes: medium shot, black and white, natural outdoor lighting, static framing

Two men in cowboy hats kneel beside a third man lying on the ground in an open field. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 4:23 (passage 4:15–4:32); US record: No renewal found

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