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West of the Divide · Beat 157 · permalink

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39:24–39:37 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; 4 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 39:3139:31

Play from 39:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 105 · shots 242–242. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and wide-brimmed hat, standing left visible
  • man in light shirt, cowboy hat, and gun belt, standing center with leg on wooden structure visible
  • man in dark vest and cowboy hat, standing right, facing p2 visible
  • man in light shirt and cowboy hat, partially visible far right visible
Also said
“- It's good, isn't it? - I say.” 39:31 · “I wonder what happened to them.” 39:34
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1], gun belt [frame:1], wooden structure [frame:1], trees [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: inheritance, mystery, Western frontier; style notes: black-and-white, medium group shot, natural outdoor lighting, period Western attire

A group of men in cowboy hats stand outdoors near a wooden structure; one man speaks about the death of Old Man Winters and the inheritance of his ranch. The dialogue suggests a plot development involving ownership and mystery about missing people.

“The winter's ranch will soon be mine.” 39:24 · “dead.” 39:29 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 39:31 (passage 39:24–39:37); US record: No renewal found

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