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West of the Divide · Beat 231 · permalink

Field

52:30–52:40 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 52:3252:32Frame at 52:3752:37

Play from 52:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 152 · shots 353–354. 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, dark long-sleeved shirt, standing, holding hat visible
  • woman, light dress with puffed sleeves, seated on wagon visible
  • little brother (named at t:52:32): boy, light shirt, seated on wagon, later close-up showing downcast expression visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man stands beside a wagon while a woman and a boy sit on it. [frame:1]
  • A close-up shows the boy looking downcast. [frame:2]
Seen
wagon [frame:1], hat [frame:1], fence [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: family conflict, courage, youth; style notes: medium shot with static framing, followed by a close-up; high-contrast black-and-white lighting

A man in dark clothes stands beside a wagon while a woman and a boy sit on it; the boy later appears in a close-up looking downcast. The transcript includes dialogue about a 'little brother' and someone lacking nerve to say something.

“What's my little brother been telling you?” 52:32 · “Well, I was telling them what you said you didn't have the nerve to.” 52:36 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 52:32 (passage 52:30–52:40); US record: No renewal found

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