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West of the Divide · Beat 224 · permalink

Field

51:08–51:30 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 51:1151:11Frame at 51:1551:15Frame at 51:2351:23Frame at 51:2851:28

Play from 51:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 148 · shots 341–345. 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, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • man in cowboy hat, dark vest, light shirt, holding a gun visible
  • man in cowboy hat, plaid shirt, vest, holding a gun visible
  • man in cowboy hat, light shirt, dark pants, standing with hands on hips visible
  • man in dark shirt and pants, inside a room, stepping over a body visible
  • Gentry (named at t:51:21): unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • Four men in cowboy hats stand outdoors, one holding a gun. [frame:1]
  • A man steps over a body lying on the floor inside a cluttered room. [frame:2]
  • The group of four men stands together outdoors again, one holding a gun. [frame:3]
  • Several men on horseback ride away across a field. [frame:4]
Also said
“Why, it's Gentry!” 51:21 · “I don't know.” 51:24
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1, frame:3, frame:4], guns [frame:1, frame:3], body on floor [frame:2], horses [frame:4], workbench and tools [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and abrupt; themes: confrontation, flight, identity reveal; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots outdoors, interior shot with cluttered background, wide shot of riders in motion

Four men in cowboy hats stand outdoors; one man inside a cluttered room steps over a body on the floor; the group is later seen on horseback riding away. A voice says 'Why, it's Gentry!' and another says 'I don't know.'

“All right, boys, let's riddle them with bullets.” 51:10 · “I'm going to go.” 51:13 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 51:11 (passage 51:08–51:30); US record: No renewal found

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