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West of the Divide · Beat 147 · permalink

Field

35:19–35:36 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 35:2135:21Frame at 35:2935:29

Play from 35:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 95 · shots 229–230. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat, suit jacket, tie, mustache visible, audible
  • man wearing cowboy hat and vest, mounted on horse visible
  • woman in long dress, standing near fence visible
Seen happening
  • A man on horseback stands near a woman and another man by a fence. [frame:2]
Also said
“Good luck.” 35:29 · “Oh, I do hope they find our cattle.” 35:35
Seen
{'item': 'cowboy hat', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'suit jacket and tie', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'horse', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'wooden fence', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'hay bales', 'frame': 2}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but hopeful; themes: departure, concern for livestock, rural setting; style notes: medium close-up and medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white, natural outdoor lighting, static framing

A man in a cowboy hat speaks to someone off-screen while standing near a fence; another man on horseback and a woman are visible nearby. The transcript includes reassurance about returning and a hope that cattle are found.

“Don't worry, dear. I may be late getting back.” 35:22 · “But I'll be here...” 35:25 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 35:21 (passage 35:19–35:36); US record: No renewal found

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