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West of the Divide · Beat 53 · permalink

Field

12:59–13:10 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 13:0013:00Frame at 13:0313:03Frame at 13:0713:07

Play from 12:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 28 · shots 96–98. 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
  • adult, wearing a dark cowboy hat and dark shirt, riding a dark horse visible
  • adult, wearing a light-colored cowboy hat and light shirt, riding a dark horse visible
Seen happening
  • Two riders on horseback are moving across a field. [frame:1]
  • The riders continue moving quickly, with one trailing a rope attached to a second horse. [frame:2]
  • The rider on the dark horse holds a long rope attached to a white horse. [frame:3]
Seen
horse [frame:1], rope [frame:3], cowboy hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: pursuit, western landscape, haste; style notes: wide outdoor shots, natural lighting, black-and-white film stock, dynamic movement captured in mid-action

Two riders on horseback move quickly across an open, hilly landscape; one rider trails a rope attached to a second horse. A line of dialogue notes their haste, followed by a sound effect of a thud.

“Them fellas are sure in a hurry.” 13:00 · “*thud*” 13:02 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 13:00 (passage 12:59–13:10); US record: No renewal found

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