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West of the Divide · Beat 152 · permalink

Farm

38:05–38:26 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name 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 38:0938:09Frame at 38:1938:19

Play from 38:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 100 · shots 236–237. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
farm (farm, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • boy, wearing light shirt and dark overalls, short hair visible
Seen happening
  • Boy leans over a wooden cart, working with a tool. [frame:1]
  • Boy is inside a wooden structure, reaching through a gate. [frame:2]
Seen
wooden cart with large spoked wheel [frame:1], wooden fence [frame:1], wooden gate and interior structure [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: quiet, focused; themes: child labor, rural life, manual work; style notes: black-and-white, high contrast lighting, medium shots, static framing

A boy works on a wooden cart in a fenced outdoor area, then is seen inside a dimly lit wooden structure. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in these frames.

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 38:09 (passage 38:05–38:26); US record: No renewal found

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