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West of the Divide · Beat 20 · permalink

Living room

6:11–6:36 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; 2 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 6:196:19Frame at 6:326:32

Play from 6:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 13 · shots 27–28. 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:2
People
  • man in patterned suit, mustache, seated visible, audible
  • older man, balding, wearing dark vest and tie, seated visible
Also said
“I'll admit it's the water I'm after, Mr. Winters, and I don't blame you for holding on to it.” 6:19 · “However, this country is still wild and rustlers are pretty numerous.” 6:23
Seen
wooden table with patterned cloth, wooden chairs, stone fireplace, wooden log walls, patterned suit
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious and pragmatic; themes: ranching, water rights, economic survival, conflict over resources; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white, period costume, rustic interior set

Two men sit at a table in a rustic wooden room, discussing ranching and water rights. One man admits he is after the water and mentions selling cattle due to rustlers.

“We've developed the best spring in the country.” 6:11 · “and someday hope to make this a fine ranch.” 6:14 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 6:19 (passage 6:11–6:36); US record: No renewal found

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