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West of the Divide · Beat 158 · permalink

Ranch

39:37–40:02 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 39:3939:39Frame at 39:4439:44Frame at 39:4939:49Frame at 39:5739:57

Play from 39:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 105 · shots 243–246. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ranch (other, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man wearing a hat, visible from chest up, leaning on wooden structure visible
  • man in suit and hat, standing with arms crossed visible, audible
  • man in light shirt and cowboy hat, standing with hands on hips visible
  • man in dark vest and cowboy hat, holding a gun visible
  • man in plaid shirt and cowboy hat, partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a hat peers out from a wooden structure. [frame:1]
  • A group of men in cowboy hats stand outdoors discussing a reward. [frame:2]
  • The man in the hat is again seen leaning on the wooden structure. [frame:3]
  • The group of men continues to stand together, one holding a gun. [frame:4]
Also said
“There's a price on his head of $5,000 dead or alive.” 39:50 · “dead men tell no tales.” 39:55
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:2], wooden structure [frame:1], gun [frame:4], suit [frame:2], plaid shirt [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: reward hunting, moral ambiguity, frontier justice; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, outdoor lighting, group framing suggests confrontation

A man in a hat peers from a wooden structure while a group of men in cowboy hats discuss a $5,000 reward for Gats Gans, who is reportedly at the Winters Ranch. One man states his job is to ensure the task is done, regardless of the method.

“And now we're going to collect $5,000 reward.” 39:42 · “Gats Gans is at the Winters Ranch, but he'll be over here in the morning.” 39:47 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 39:39 (passage 39:37–40:02); US record: No renewal found

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