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West of the Divide · Beat 230 · permalink

Field

51:59–52:30 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; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 52:1552:15

Play from 51:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 152 · shots 352–352. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a light patterned dress with puffed sleeves and a dark belt visible, audible
  • Jim (named at t:52:12): boy, light hair, wearing a light shirt, dark pants, and boots, sitting on a wagon visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman and a boy sit on a wagon and talk. [frame:1]
Also said
“And he said when you married him,” 52:17 · “Sure, and you better accept his propositions.” 52:24
Seen
wooden wagon [frame:1], wooden fence [frame:1], grass field [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: conversational, slightly tense; themes: ranch life, marriage proposal, family plans; style notes: medium shot, natural outdoor lighting, static framing, period costume

A woman and a boy sit on a wagon in a fenced outdoor area, discussing marriage and a ranch. The dialogue suggests a proposal and future plans, with the boy named Jim and another person named Ted mentioned.

“What are you thinking about, Jim?” 52:12 · “You know, Ted and I are gonna get our ranch back.” 52:14 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 52:15 (passage 51:59–52:30); US record: No renewal found

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