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West of the Divide · Beat 156 · permalink

Field

39:09–39:24 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 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 39:1739:17

Play from 39:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 104 · shots 241–241. 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 on horse, wearing cowboy hat and boots, light shirt visible
  • man standing, wearing cowboy hat, dark vest, light shirt, holding object visible, audible
  • man standing, wearing cowboy hat, dark shirt, partially obscured visible
Seen happening
  • A man on horseback greets two men standing near a fence. [frame:1]
Seen
horse [frame:1], wooden fence [frame:1], cowboy hats [frame:1], rope on saddle [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual, anticipatory; themes: Western, outdoor gathering, news announcement; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, natural outdoor lighting, Western costume and setting

A man on horseback greets two men standing near a wooden fence; one of the men responds and announces he has good news. The scene is outdoors under daylight, with trees and a fence visible.

“- Hello, boys. - Hi, boys.” 39:19 · “Well, I got some good news for you.” 39:21 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 39:17 (passage 39:09–39:24); US record: No renewal found

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