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West of the Divide · Beat 232 · permalink

Field

52:40–53:02 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 52:4252:42Frame at 52:4752:47Frame at 52:5352:53Frame at 52:5852:58

Play from 52:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 152 · shots 355–359. 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 shirt, standing visible
  • woman, checkered dress with white collar, standing visible
  • boy, light shirt, sitting on wagon visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand near a wagon while a boy sits on it. [frame:1]
  • The boy smiles broadly. [frame:2]
  • The boy looks to his side, still smiling. [frame:3]
  • The man leans toward the boy on the wagon; the woman stands with hands on hips. [frame:4]
Also said
“I think your brother needs a good lecture.” 52:54 · “He needs a good... banking” 52:58
Seen
wagon [frame:4], fence [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted; themes: family interaction, humor, rural setting; style notes: medium shots, outdoor natural lighting, static framing

A man and a woman stand near a wagon while a boy sits on it; the boy smiles and speaks. The transcript includes dialogue about a proposition and a lecture, ending with the word 'banking'.

“All right.” 52:42 · “Is my face red? Well, don't I tend to be.” 52:43 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 52:42 (passage 52:40–53:02); US record: No renewal found

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