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West of the Divide · Beat 177 · permalink

Field

43:52–44:00 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 43:5643:56

Play from 43:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 118 · shots 270–270. 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
  • adult male, wearing dark shirt, dark pants, cowboy hat, standing visible, audible
  • boy, wearing light shirt, dark pants, cowboy hat, seated on ground visible
Seen happening
  • Man stands beside seated boy near tree [frame:1]
Seen
cowboy hat [frame:1], tree [frame:1], wooden structure [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious, protective; themes: parental authority, childhood obedience, rural setting; style notes: medium shot, natural daylight, outdoor setting with shallow depth of field focusing on figures

A man in a cowboy hat stands beside a seated boy near a tree and a wooden structure; the man speaks to the boy, telling him to stay put regardless of what happens. The scene is outdoors in daylight, with hills visible in the background.

“No matter what happens, son.” 43:52 · “Stay right here.” 43:54 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 43:56 (passage 43:52–44:00); US record: No renewal found

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