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West of the Divide · Beat 149 · permalink

Field

35:56–37:09 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 36:3236:32

Play from 35:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 97 · shots 232–232. 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
  • George Smith (named at t:36:20): cowboy hat, dark shirt, holding a letter visible, audible
  • Gentry (named at t:36:03): older man, cowboy hat, lighter shirt, standing center visible, audible
  • Chuck (named at t:36:25): cowboy hat, dark shirt, hands on hips, standing right visible, audible
Also said
“You go tell Gentry that we've disposed of Mr. Winters here.” 36:35 · “Go on, get out of here before I shoot the pants off of you.” 36:48
Seen
letter, horses, cowboy hats, gun belt
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: Western frontier, conflict resolution, threats and intimidation; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, natural outdoor lighting, Western costume and setting

Three men in cowboy attire stand outdoors in a field with horses nearby; one holds a letter and speaks about Gans and a job, while another threatens to shoot if they don't leave. The conversation references a poster, a character named Gentry, and a resolved situation involving 'Mr. Winters'.

“Hello, gentry.” 36:03 · “George Smith.” 36:20 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 36:32 (passage 35:56–37:09); US record: No renewal found

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