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West of the Divide · Beat 209 · permalink

Field

48:55–49:12 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 48:5748:57Frame at 49:0149:01Frame at 49:0749:07Frame at 49:1049:10

Play from 48:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 140 · shots 319–323. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • adult, wearing dark jacket and pants, riding a dark horse visible
  • adult, wearing dark shirt, riding a white horse visible
  • group of riders on horseback, distant visible
Seen happening
  • Riders on horseback move across a grassy field with hills in the background. [frame:1]
  • A rider on a white horse emerges from behind trees onto a dirt path. [frame:2]
  • A rider on a dark horse gallops toward the camera. [frame:3]
  • A rider on a white horse is shown in close-up, looking off-camera. [frame:4]
Seen
horse [frame:3], horse [frame:4], saddle [frame:3], trees [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: uncertain, open; themes: journey, uncertainty, outdoor travel; style notes: wide landscape shots followed by medium close-ups; black-and-white, natural lighting

A group of riders on horseback moves through a hilly, grassy landscape. One rider on a dark horse and another on a white horse are shown in closer shots, with a line of riders visible in the distance.

“I'm not sure.” 48:59 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 48:57 (passage 48:55–49:12); US record: No renewal found

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