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West of the Divide · Beat 18 · permalink

Field

5:36–5:48 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 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 5:425:42

Play from 5:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 11 · shots 25–25. 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
  • man in dark shirt, black cowboy hat, and neckerchief, holding paper visible
  • Dusty (named at t:5:43): man in plaid shirt, lighter cowboy hat, holding paper visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand outdoors holding papers and looking at them. [frame:1]
Also said
“Let me show.” 5:46
Seen
paper [frame:1], cowboy hats [frame:1], neckerchief [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: curious and slightly humorous; themes: identity, fate, western; style notes: medium shot, natural outdoor lighting, two-shot framing

Two men in cowboy hats examine papers outdoors. One speaks to the other, calling him 'Dusty' and suggesting fate is involved.

“Certainly is funny, but you sure do resemble this bozo.” 5:36 · “Maybe fate's kind of taken a hand in this deal, Dusty.” 5:43 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 5:42 (passage 5:36–5:48); US record: No renewal found

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