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West of the Divide · Beat 186 · permalink

Living room

46:23–46:32 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 46:2546:25Frame at 46:2846:28Frame at 46:3146:31

Play from 46:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 123 · shots 289–291. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a checkered dress with ruffled sleeves and a white collar visible
  • man, wearing dark pants and a light shirt, partially visible behind p1 in frame:2 visible
Seen happening
  • A woman reaches for a wall-mounted telephone receiver. [frame:1]
  • A man and a woman stand near a trunk in a room with a stone fireplace. [frame:2]
  • The woman stands in a doorway, looking off-camera. [frame:3]
Seen
wall-mounted telephone [frame:1], trunk [frame:2], stone fireplace [frame:2], wooden doorframe [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or anticipatory; themes: domestic interior, communication, departure or arrival; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, period costume and set design

A woman in a checkered dress is shown in a wooden interior, first at a wall-mounted telephone, then entering a room with a man near a trunk, and finally standing in a doorway. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in the frames.

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 46:25 (passage 46:23–46:32); US record: No renewal found

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