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West of the Divide · Beat 77 · permalink

Private office

18:56–19:41 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 19:0019:00Frame at 19:1819:18Frame at 19:3619:36

Play from 18:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 47 · shots 126–128. 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
  • man in dark suit, light-colored wide-brimmed hat, holding a telephone receiver visible, audible
  • man in dark coat and cowboy hat, standing near door visible
  • man in plaid shirt and cowboy hat, holding a gun visible
  • man in dark shirt and cowboy hat, standing with hands on hips visible
  • man in light shirt and cowboy hat, standing near wall visible
Seen happening
  • Men stand in a wooden room, some holding guns. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit holds a telephone receiver while others look on. [frame:2]
  • Men begin to move, one stepping forward with a gun visible. [frame:3]
Also said
“We got a little job to do tomorrow night.” 19:05 · “But be sure it isn't the girl.” 19:26
Seen
telephone receiver, guns, cowboy hats, wooden door, saddlebags
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: crime planning, western genre, group coordination, impending violence; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costumes, wooden interior setting

A group of men in cowboy hats and period clothing gather inside a wooden building, discussing a plan to steal cattle and ambush someone named Winters. One man gives instructions while others listen, and they prepare to leave around midnight.

“Hey, boys.” 18:57 · “- Grandusty. - Howdy.” 19:00 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 19:00 (passage 18:56–19:41); US record: No renewal found

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