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West of the Divide · Beat 26 · permalink

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7:31–7:57 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 7:447:44

Play from 7:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 17 · shots 37–37. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in suit, mid-adult, average build visible, audible
  • woman in patterned dress, mid-adult, average build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man and woman are standing face-to-face in conversation. [frame:1]
Also said
“As your neighbor, may I be permitted to call sometime? Why, of course.” 7:48 · “Damn nice, we'll be the light to the end.” 7:52
Seen
wooden wall [frame:1], curtained window [frame:1], patterned dress [frame:1], suit [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: calm, conversational; themes: neighborly relations, personal choice, domestic setting; style notes: medium two-shot, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white, studio lighting

A man and a woman stand inside a rustic wooden structure, conversing. The dialogue suggests a discussion about staying in place and a neighborly invitation to visit.

“Your father told me that you decided not to sell.” 7:32 · “We're quite happy here.” 7:36 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 7:44 (passage 7:31–7:57); US record: No renewal found

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