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West of the Divide · Beat 3 · permalink

Forest

1:11–1:37 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 1:241:24

Play from 1:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: cutting rhythm changes. Sequence 3 · shots 2–2. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark coat, holding a bottle, seated visible, audible
  • Dusty (named at t:1:35): man in wide-brimmed hat and patterned shirt, seated, mouth open as if speaking visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men sit together outdoors at night. [frame:1]
Also said
“You know, it was right around here I picked you up twelve years ago.” 1:27 · “I'll never forget that night, Dusty. Slash of guns. Shouts of murdering men.” 1:35
Seen
bottle, wide-brimmed hat, dark coat, patterned shirt
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: nostalgic and tense; themes: memory, violence, survival, past trauma; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, low-key lighting emphasizing faces and shadows, period Western costume

Two men sit outdoors at night, one holding a bottle, as they recall a violent event from twelve years earlier. The dialogue references a ridge, a gap, and a night of gunshots and shouts.

“I remember that ridge over there. Yeah.” 1:20 · “That one lies right over there in that big gap.” 1:24 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 1:24 (passage 1:11–1:37); US record: No renewal found

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