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West of the Divide · Beat 66 · permalink

Sidewalk

16:32–16:51 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 16:3716:37Frame at 16:4716:47

Play from 16:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 38 · shots 111–112. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Jandry (named at t:16:40): man in cowboy hat, dark shirt, gun belt, and dark pants visible, audible
  • man in cowboy hat, plaid shirt, bandana, and vest visible
  • man in suit and tie, clean-shaven, holding a paper visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men in cowboy attire stand facing a man in a suit. [frame:1]
  • The man in the suit holds a paper and speaks to the cowboys. [frame:2]
Also said
“We're from the border. Phil said to give you this.” 16:41 · “He'd have come himself, but he had a couple of star packers on his tray.” 16:45
Seen
gun belt [frame:1], paper [frame:2], cowboy hat [frame:1], suit [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and transactional; themes: frontier communication, delegated authority, urban-rural encounter; style notes: medium two-shots, high-contrast black-and-white, natural outdoor lighting with deep shadows, period Western costume

Two men in cowboy attire speak with a man in a suit outdoors; one of the cowboys identifies himself as Jandry and mentions being sent by Phil. The setting appears to be a shaded outdoor area with trees and a paved surface.

“Your name is Entry?” 16:38 · “Yeah, I'm Jandry.” 16:40 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 16:37 (passage 16:32–16:51); US record: No renewal found

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