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West of the Divide · Beat 61 · permalink

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15:14–15:27 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 15:2015:20

Play from 15:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 34 · shots 106–106. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark cowboy hat, dark shirt, gun belt, holding money visible, audible
  • man in cowboy hat, plaid shirt, vest, facing p1 visible
Seen happening
  • One man hands money to another. [frame:1]
Also said
“Right.” 15:24
Seen
cowboy hat, gun belt, money, wooden building
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and secretive; themes: secrecy, cowboy culture, transaction under duress; style notes: medium shot, black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, static framing

Two men in cowboy attire stand outside a wooden building; one hands money to the other while speaking about depositing it and meeting at a shack. No names are spoken, and no on-screen text is visible.

“Listen, I hadn't better be seen around here, so you take this money down and deposit it for her.” 15:18 · “And I'll meet you at the shack.” 15:22 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 15:20 (passage 15:14–15:27); US record: No renewal found

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