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West of the Divide · Beat 29 · permalink

Porch

8:25–9:05 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 8:278:27Frame at 8:348:34Frame at 8:428:42Frame at 8:558:55

Play from 8:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 19 · shots 40–43. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
porch (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in cowboy hat and vest, standing on porch visible
  • man in cowboy hat, seated on porch visible
  • man in cowboy hat and vest, leaning on railing visible
  • Chief (named at t:8:27): man in cowboy hat and plaid shirt, close-up visible
  • Beth (named at t:8:58): woman, barely visible in dark interior visible
Seen happening
  • Men gather on a porch and greet each other. [frame:1]
  • A man leans on a railing while speaking to others. [frame:2]
  • A man in a cowboy hat is shown in close-up. [frame:3]
  • A woman is seen in a dark interior. [frame:4]
Also said
“I want you to get it.” 8:44 · “All right, Beth.” 8:58
Seen
wooden porch, cowboy hats, railing, dark interior
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: conflict over property, threats and coercion, gendered roles in a Western setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots on porch, close-up for emphasis, dark interior for contrast

A group of men on a wooden porch discuss forcing a sale of a ranch and plan to intercept a woman carrying money. One man, addressed as Chief, gives orders while another, Beth, is seen briefly in a darkened interior.

“- See them to the boys. - Hello, Chief. - Hi, Chief. - All right, boys.” 8:27 · “Winters refuses to sell.” 8:32 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 8:27 (passage 8:25–9:05); US record: No renewal found

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