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West of the Divide · Beat 178 · permalink

Private office

44:00–44:15 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 44:0444:04Frame at 44:1144:11

Play from 44:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 119 · shots 271–272. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, adult, wearing a suit and wide-brimmed hat visible, audible
  • Miss Winters (named at t:44:01): woman, adult, wearing a checkered dress with a white collar visible
Seen happening
  • A man walks toward a seated woman in a wooden room. [frame:1]
  • The man hands a poster to the woman while speaking to her. [frame:2]
Also said
“This poster will speak for itself.” 44:09
Seen
poster [frame:2], wooden wall [frame:1], shelf with pottery [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: revelation, confrontation, written communication; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast lighting, static camera, period costume

A man in a suit and hat approaches a seated woman in a checkered dress inside a wooden-walled room; he hands her a poster while speaking. The woman looks at the poster as he speaks to her.

“Miss Winters.” 44:01 · “I hardly know how to tell you, but...” 44:07 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 44:04 (passage 44:00–44:15); US record: No renewal found

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