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West of the Divide · Beat 82 · permalink

Field

20:28–21:01 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; 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 20:4520:45

Play from 20:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 50 · shots 134–134. 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 wearing dark coat and wide-brimmed hat, on white horse visible, audible
  • man wearing light suit and light hat, on dark horse visible, audible
Also said
“Like a dime novel.” 20:51 · “You marry the gal and get the ranch. Is that it? You guessed it. Huh.” 20:54
Seen
white horse [frame:1], dark horse [frame:1], wide-brimmed hats [frame:1], coats [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: land acquisition, marriage as transaction, power dynamics; style notes: medium two-shot on horseback, natural outdoor lighting, period Western attire

Two men on horseback discuss acquiring a ranch and its owner's daughter, with one stating he will take both. The conversation implies a scheme involving marriage to gain control of the property.

“I've tried to buy the ranch for two years. Now I'm taking it.” 20:41 · “I'm taking her along with the ranch. Oh, I see.” 20:47 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 20:45 (passage 20:28–21:01); US record: No renewal found

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