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West of the Divide · Beat 142 · permalink

Ranch

33:40–34:29 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 33:4233:42Frame at 34:0734:07

Play from 33:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 92 · shots 220–221. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ranch (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark cowboy hat and coat, walking beside a white horse visible
  • man in cowboy hat and vest, standing with hands on hips visible
  • man in cowboy hat and dark shirt, standing with hands clasped visible
Seen happening
  • A man in cowboy attire walks beside a white horse near a wooden fence. [frame:1]
  • Three men in cowboy attire stand near hay bales, talking. [frame:2]
Also said
“Yes, I am.” 33:48 · “I sure will. Well, that's fair enough.” 34:14
Seen
white horse [frame:1], wooden fence [frame:1], hay bales [frame:2], cowboy hats [frame:2], saddle [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: pragmatic and urgent; themes: cattle rustling, negotiation, cowboy camaraderie; style notes: medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, period Western costume and props

Three men in cowboy attire discuss cattle rustling near a white horse and hay bales; one agrees to saddle up and join the others to track the stolen herd. The conversation includes a proposal to recover the cattle in exchange for employment.

“Oh, how are you?” 33:45 · “I reckon you're the owner here.” 33:46 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 33:42 (passage 33:40–34:29); US record: No renewal found

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