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West of the Divide · Beat 223 · permalink

Field

50:47–51:08 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 50:5050:50Frame at 51:0051:00

Play from 50:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 148 · shots 339–340. 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
  • man in dark shirt and pants, standing, holding another man's collar visible
  • man in light shirt, seated, being restrained by p1 visible
  • three men on horseback, seen from behind, riding along a fence visible
Seen happening
  • Three riders on horseback move along a fence in a hilly field. [frame:1]
  • One man restrains another inside a wooden structure. [frame:2]
Also said
“But I'm keeping my hands clean, gentry.” 51:03 · “I'm taking you to the law.” 51:06
Seen
horses [frame:1], fence [frame:1], wooden structure [frame:2], saw [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: revenge, justice, family separation, confrontation; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups for dialogue, wide shot for exterior action, natural lighting in exterior, shadowed interior

Two men are shown in a confrontation inside a wooden structure; one is seated and restrained while the other stands over him. Earlier in the beat, three riders on horseback are seen moving along a fenced path in a hilly, open landscape.

“Listen, Gensry, I'm going to go.” 50:48 · “Twelve years ago, you killed my father.” 50:54 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 50:50 (passage 50:47–51:08); US record: No renewal found

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