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West of the Divide · Beat 30 · permalink

Field

9:05–9:14 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 9:069:06Frame at 9:099:09Frame at 9:129:12

Play from 9:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 20 · shots 44–46. 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 wearing a light-colored cowboy hat and dark shirt, seated on a horse visible
  • man wearing a dark cowboy hat and light shirt, seated on a horse visible
  • man wearing a light-colored cowboy hat and light shirt, riding a horse across terrain visible
Seen happening
  • Two men on horseback are facing each other in conversation. [frame:1]
  • One man rides a horse across open ground. [frame:2]
  • The same man continues riding away from the camera across terrain with trees and hills. [frame:3]
Seen
{'item': 'two horses', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'cowboy hats', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'saddle', 'evidence': 'frame:2'} [frame:2], {'item': 'trees and hills in background', 'evidence': 'frame:3'} [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: uncertain and transitional; themes: departure, ambiguity, western setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium to long shots, natural outdoor lighting, static camera during dialogue, panning to follow movement

Two men on horseback are shown in conversation, followed by one man riding away across open terrain. The transcript contains only hesitant dialogue with no names or specific events mentioned.

“Okay.” 9:07 · “I'm not sure.” 9:07 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 9:06 (passage 9:05–9:14); US record: No renewal found

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