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West of the Divide · Beat 165 · permalink

Wooded area with fence

41:00–41:25 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 41:1241:12Frame at 41:2441:24

Play from 41:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 110 · shots 253–254. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
wooded area with fence (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Spuds (named at t:41:05): man in dark shirt, dark cowboy hat, belt with buckle, boots visible, audible
  • man in light shirt, light cowboy hat, light pants visible, audible
Also said
“You don't have to worry, bud. There's no reward out for me, and they're not gonna get me.” 41:17 · “That was at Martin's.” 41:23
Seen
{'item': 'wooden bench', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'tree trunk', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'wooden fence', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'cowboy hats', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'belt with buckle', 'frame': 1}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: betrayal, warning, outlaw life; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, outdoor natural setting

Two men in cowboy hats sit on a bench outdoors and speak; one warns the other he will be shot at a hideout, and the other denies being wanted. The setting is a wooded area with a wooden fence and trees.

“Why, Spuds, what are you doing over here? I've come to tell you, they're going to shoot you as soon as you come to the hideout.” 41:05 · “The entry says there's a reward for you, and he's going to get it.” 41:11 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 41:12 (passage 41:00–41:25); US record: No renewal found

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