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West of the Divide · Beat 46 · permalink

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12:04–12:20 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 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 12:0712:07Frame at 12:1112:11Frame at 12:1512:15Frame at 12:1912:19

Play from 12:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 85–88. 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 cowboy hat and dark shirt, lying on ground holding a gun visible
  • man in light shirt lying motionless on a bed under wooden rafters visible
  • unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A man lies on the ground outdoors holding a gun. [frame:1]
  • A man lies motionless on a bed in a wooden room. [frame:2]
  • The man on the ground raises the gun slightly. [frame:3]
  • The man on the bed remains motionless. [frame:4]
Seen
gun, cowboy hat, bed, wooden rafters
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, uncertainty, isolation; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, alternating between outdoor close-ups and interior medium shots

A man is seen lying on the ground outdoors holding a gun, while another man lies motionless on a bed inside a wooden room. A voice shouts for the man with the gun to drop it, and he responds that he is not sure.

“Drop that gun! Are you going crazy?” 12:08 · “I'm not sure.” 12:17 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 12:07 (passage 12:04–12:20); US record: No renewal found

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