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West of the Divide · Beat 182 · permalink

Private office

45:06–45:25 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 45:1245:12Frame at 45:2045:20Frame at 45:2445:24

Play from 45:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 121 · shots 280–282. 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:2
People
  • Pat Hayden (named at t:45:07): man, wearing a dark cowboy hat and dark shirt, medium build, appears in his 30s visible, audible
  • man, wearing a suit, older, standing next to a woman visible
  • Miss Winters (named at t:45:22): woman, wearing a checkered dress with a white collar, dark hair styled in waves visible
Also said
“You left me for dead too, gentry.” 45:12 · “Then call the sheriff, Miss Winters.” 45:22
Seen
cowboy hat [frame:1], suit [frame:2], checkered dress [frame:2], wooden shelves with objects [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: revenge, identity, confrontation; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, static framing, high-contrast lighting emphasizing facial expressions

A man named Pat Hayden confronts another man and a woman, identifying himself as the son of a man murdered 12 years ago and stating his intent to settle the score. The woman, addressed as Miss Winters, is told to call the sheriff.

“My name's Hayden.” 45:06 · “Son of the man you and your gang murdered 12 years ago.” 45:08 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 45:12 (passage 45:06–45:25); US record: No renewal found

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