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West of the Divide · Beat 193 · permalink

Road

47:18–47:33 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 5 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 47:1947:19Frame at 47:2247:22Frame at 47:2847:28

Play from 47:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 129 · shots 298–300. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man on horseback, wearing dark clothing, seen from behind visible
  • man on horseback, wearing dark clothing, seen from behind visible
  • man in dark suit, standing, gesturing with right arm visible
  • man in light-colored shirt and dark pants, bent over, being pushed visible
  • man in light-colored shirt and dark pants, crouching near fireplace visible
Seen happening
  • Riders on horseback move along a dusty road. [frame:1]
  • A man in a dark suit pushes another man in a rustic room. [frame:2]
  • A man crouches near a fireplace in a rustic room. [frame:3]
Seen
horses [frame:1], dusty road [frame:1], log cabin interior [frame:2], patterned armchair [frame:2], fireplace [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict, rural setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural lighting in exterior, dim interior lighting, static camera

Three frames show riders on horseback on a dusty road, then two men in a physical altercation inside a rustic room, and finally a man crouching near a fireplace in the same room. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 47:19 (passage 47:18–47:33); US record: No renewal found

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