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West of the Divide · Beat 64 · permalink

Switchboard room

15:55–15:57 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 15:5615:56

Play from 15:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 109–109. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
switchboard room (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, white hair, wearing a dark vest over a light shirt visible
Seen happening
  • A man operates a switchboard by inserting a plug into a jack. [frame:1]
Seen
switchboard [frame:1], handset [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: focused, routine; themes: communication, manual labor, technology of the era; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up, static shot, high contrast lighting emphasizing the man and the switchboard

An older man with white hair is shown in profile, operating a large, vintage telephone switchboard. The setting appears to be an interior room with wooden walls and equipment.

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 15:56 (passage 15:55–15:57); US record: No renewal found

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