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West of the Divide · Beat 16 · permalink

Field

4:38–5:20 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; 2 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 4:594:59

Play from 4:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 9 · shots 23–23. 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
  • young man, wearing dark shirt and cowboy hat, holding paper visible, audible
  • older man, wearing plaid shirt and cowboy hat, holding paper visible, audible
Mentioned
  • It is mentioned that someone is planning to kill another. [t:5:16]
  • It is stated that the man got the other's father's ranch. [t:5:18]
Also said
“He's evidently planning to kill him.” 5:16 · “Well, that's the fellow that got your dad's ranch.” 5:18
Seen
paper [frame:1], cowboy hats [frame:1], belt with buckle [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: Western frontier, conflict over land, personal danger; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, natural outdoor lighting, period Western attire

Two men in cowboy hats examine papers outdoors; one reads aloud from a letter while the other listens. The transcript indicates they are discussing a man named Gad Gan and a ranch, with one man declining to help due to being pursued.

“This will introduce Gad Gan.” 4:54 · “Sorry I can't do it, but I got a couple of Star Packers on my trail.” 5:00 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 4:59 (passage 4:38–5:20); US record: No renewal found

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