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West of the Divide · Beat 49 · permalink

Field

12:26–12:43 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 12:3012:30Frame at 12:3912:39

Play from 12:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 27 · shots 91–92. 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 cowboy hat, dark shirt, vest, and belt with gun holster visible
  • man with dark hair, light shirt, and vest, initially sitting then standing visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cowboy hat stands over another man sitting on the ground. [frame:1]
  • Both men are standing, facing each other, each holding a gun. [frame:2]
Also said
“Come on, get in your saddle. We've got to go tell the chiefs.” 12:37
Seen
cowboy hat [frame:1], gun [frame:1], gun [frame:2], saddle [t:12:37]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, Western frontier, gun conflict; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, Western genre framing

A man in a cowboy hat stands over another man who is sitting on the ground, then both stand facing each other holding guns. The transcript includes dialogue urging someone to calm down and to get in a saddle to tell the chiefs.

“Cool down now before I stop here.” 12:31 · “Go on, try it, you pink-eyed weasel.” 12:33 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 12:30 (passage 12:26–12:43); US record: No renewal found

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