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West of the Divide · Beat 71 · permalink

Field

18:24–18:35 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; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 18:3018:30

Play from 18:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 42 · shots 120–120. 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
  • man in plaid shirt and vest, back to camera visible
  • man in dark hat and coat, face obscured visible
  • Gat Gans (named at t:18:25): man in light suit and wide-brimmed hat, facing right visible
  • Dusty (named at t:18:25): boy in light shirt and hat, standing right visible
  • man in checkered shirt, hat, and gun belt, facing left visible
  • unseen speaker audible
Also said
“How are you, boys?” 18:29 · “These boys have joined up with us for a while.” 18:30
Seen
gun belt [frame:1], hats (various styles) [frame:1], plaid shirt [frame:1], vest [frame:1], wide-brimmed hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual introduction; themes: group formation, Western frontier, character introduction; style notes: medium shot, outdoor natural lighting, Western costume detail, static framing

A group of men in Western attire, including one with a gun belt, stand outdoors and are introduced by someone off-screen. The speaker names two individuals, Gat Gans and Dusty, and states they have joined the group temporarily.

“Hey, Butch.” 18:24 · “I want you to meet Gat Gans and his friend Dusty.” 18:25 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 18:30 (passage 18:24–18:35); US record: No renewal found

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