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West of the Divide · Beat 172 · permalink

Field

43:28–43:32 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name 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 43:3043:30

Play from 43:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 113 · shots 265–265. 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
  • person on horseback, wearing dark clothing, seen from a distance visible
Seen happening
  • A person on horseback is visible behind a picket fence. [frame:1]
Seen
picket fence [frame:1], horse [frame:1], trees [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: quiet, observational; themes: rural landscape, solitude; style notes: wide shot, high contrast black and white, static framing

A person on horseback is visible behind a picket fence in an outdoor rural setting. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 43:30 (passage 43:28–43:32); US record: No renewal found

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