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West of the Divide · Beat 181 · permalink

Private office

44:53–45:06 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 44:5644:56Frame at 45:0145:01Frame at 45:0545:05

Play from 44:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 121 · shots 277–279. 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 with mustache, wearing suit jacket visible
  • woman with dark hair, wearing checkered dress with white collar visible
  • man wearing cowboy hat and dark shirt visible
Seen happening
  • Woman holds a small object and looks alarmed. [frame:1]
  • Man in cowboy hat looks forward with neutral expression. [frame:2]
  • Woman looks shocked while standing beside the man in the suit. [frame:3]
Also said
“Call the sheriff.” 45:00 · “I'm holding this man for murder.” 45:01
Seen
wooden shelf with pottery, cowboy hat, checkered dress with white collar, suit jacket
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: justice, accusation, family concern; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, period costume

A man and a woman stand in a wooden room; the woman asks what happened to her father, and the man says he saved Miss Winters. Another man in a cowboy hat appears, and someone calls for the sheriff, accusing a man of murder.

“What have you done with my father?” 44:56 · “Your father saved Miss Winters.” 44:58 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 44:56 (passage 44:53–45:06); US record: No renewal found

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