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West of the Divide · Beat 180 · permalink

Private office

44:17–44:53 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 44:3244:32Frame at 44:4944:49Frame at 44:5244:52

Play from 44:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 121 · shots 274–276. 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
  • Mr. Gentry (named at t:44:39): man in suit, standing, medium build visible, audible
  • woman in checkered dress, seated, covering face visible, audible
  • man in cowboy hat and dark shirt, standing in doorway visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit stands beside a woman who covers her face with her hands. [frame:1]
  • A man in a cowboy hat looks forward with a serious expression. [frame:2]
  • The man in the suit embraces the woman as the man in the cowboy hat stands in the doorway. [frame:3]
Also said
“Please, Mr. Gentry, I... Won't you understand, Thay? I'm crazy about you. I'll give you everything you want.” 44:39 · “I want you to be my wife. Oh, take your hands off me. Take your hands off, gentry.” 44:47
Seen
wooden wall, shelf with objects, cowboy hat, checkered dress, suit, doorway, curtained window
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and emotionally charged; themes: romantic conflict, grief, proposals under duress; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, static framing, high contrast lighting

A man and a woman are in a wooden room; the man embraces the woman as another man enters. The transcript reveals the woman is distressed over news about her father and the man proposes marriage, which she resists.

“That's the man that went with Dad.” 44:19 · “And he's a killer. That isn't the worst of it.” 44:21 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 44:32 (passage 44:17–44:53); US record: No renewal found

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