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West of the Divide · Beat 144 · permalink

Field

34:43–35:12 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 34:4734:47Frame at 34:5634:56Frame at 35:0435:04Frame at 35:1035:10

Play from 34:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 93 · shots 223–226. 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 in suit and fedora, older, medium build visible, audible
  • Miss Corners (named at t:34:51): woman in checkered dress with white collar, dark hair styled in waves, young adult visible, audible
  • man in cowboy hat and vest, older, weathered face visible, audible
  • man in dark cowboy hat and dark shirt, young adult, clean-shaven visible
Seen happening
  • A group stands outdoors near a wooden fence and tree. [frame:1]
  • Three people converse: a man in a suit, a woman in a checkered dress, and a man in a cowboy hat. [frame:2]
  • A man in a dark cowboy hat looks down thoughtfully. [frame:3]
  • A woman in a checkered dress smiles upward. [frame:4]
Also said
“That's too dangerous. I won't let you go. We'll take care of him, Miss Winters.” 34:59 · “When we strike the cattle, he's coming back after the sheriff.” 35:04
Seen
wooden fence, tree with thick trunk, cowboy hat, checkered dress with white collar, suit and fedora, dark cowboy hat, dark shirt
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but resolved; themes: duty, protection, rural conflict; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white, natural outdoor lighting, period Western costumes

A man reports cattle stolen and hires two boys to trail them, while a woman objects to the danger. The group stands outdoors near a fence, with one man in a cowboy hat and another in a suit, and a woman in a checkered dress.

“Good morning, Gentry. Good morning, Miss Corners.” 34:51 · “Rustler's run off my cattle last night. I've just hired these two boys to help trail 'em.” 34:53 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 34:47 (passage 34:43–35:12); US record: No renewal found

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