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West of the Divide · Beat 81 · permalink

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20:17–20:28 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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 20:2220:22

Play from 20:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 49 · shots 133–133. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a hat and light shirt, standing on porch steps visible, audible
  • man in dark vest and shirt, standing on ground level visible
Also said
“Tell the boys they hit up the buck, boys. They're driving to town for revision.” 20:22
Seen
wooden porch, fence, trees
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual, conversational; themes: rural setting, male camaraderie, travel plans; style notes: medium shot, static framing, natural outdoor lighting

Two men stand outside a wooden structure; one calls out to someone off-screen while the other listens. The transcript indicates they are discussing others driving to town for revision.

“Hey, bud!” 20:18 · “Come out here.” 20:21 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 20:22 (passage 20:17–20:28); US record: No renewal found

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