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West of the Divide · Beat 184 · permalink

Private office

45:34–45:54 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 45:3845:38Frame at 45:4845:48

Play from 45:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 123 · shots 284–285. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a checkered blouse with ruffles visible, audible
  • Gentry (named at t:45:51): man, wearing a suit and tie, holding a glass visible
Seen happening
  • A woman picks up a wall-mounted telephone receiver. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit stands holding a glass near a floral-patterned sofa. [frame:2]
Also said
“You're mighty brave behind a gun, aren't you?” 45:47 · “Hanging or shooting is too good for you, Gentry.” 45:51
Seen
wall-mounted telephone, glass, floral-patterned sofa, wooden shelves and walls
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, law enforcement, accusation; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, studio lighting, period costume

A woman is on the phone in a room with wooden walls and shelves; a man in a suit stands nearby holding a glass. The transcript includes a call to the sheriff's office and an accusation directed at someone named Gentry.

“Hello?” 45:39 · “Hello, give me the sheriff's office.” 45:39 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 45:38 (passage 45:34–45:54); US record: No renewal found

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