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West of the Divide · Beat 63 · permalink

Private office

15:41–15:55 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 15:4815:48

Play from 15:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 35 · shots 108–108. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Dr. Silsby (named at t:15:43): middle-aged man, balding, wearing a light shirt and dark vest, holding a telephone receiver visible, audible
Also said
“Your daughter wanted me to tell you she may be late getting home.” 15:45 · “She's met with a slight accident.” 15:49
Seen
wall-mounted telephone, framed picture on wall, curtain
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: calm but urgent; themes: communication, responsibility, domestic concern; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, period costume, minimal set

A man in a vest and shirt is on the phone in a dimly lit room with a wall-mounted telephone and a framed picture. He speaks to someone off-screen, relaying a message about a daughter who had a minor accident and will be brought to the ranch later.

“Hello, winners.” 15:41 · “This is Dr. Silsby.” 15:43 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 15:48 (passage 15:41–15:55); US record: No renewal found

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