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West of the Divide · Beat 198 · permalink

Private office

48:03–48:11 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 48:0448:04Frame at 48:0848:08

Play from 48:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 133 · shots 307–308. 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, frame:2
People
  • man in a suit, dark hair, medium build visible
  • person in dark clothing, lying face down, hair visible visible
Seen happening
  • A person lies face down on the floor. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit stands in a room with bookshelves. [frame:2]
Seen
bookshelf, suit, dark clothing
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, defeat; style notes: static medium shots, high contrast black and white, studio lighting

A man in a suit stands in a room with bookshelves while another person lies face down on the floor. The transcript contains only the word 'Yeah.'

“Yeah.” 48:05 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 48:04 (passage 48:03–48:11); US record: No renewal found

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