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West of the Divide · Beat 94 · permalink

Road

23:52–24:11 Registered 1934

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

Frame at 23:5523:55Frame at 23:5823:58Frame at 24:0724:07Frame at 24:1024:10

Play from 23:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 55 · shots 162–166. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a cowboy hat and dark clothing, driving a carriage visible
  • person wearing a light-colored hat, seated beside p1 visible
Seen happening
  • A horse-drawn carriage is seen traveling on a dirt road. [frame:1]
  • A man in a cowboy hat leans forward while driving the carriage. [frame:2]
  • The driver adjusts his hat while holding the reins. [frame:3]
  • The carriage continues moving along the road with two people aboard. [frame:4]
Seen
horse-drawn carriage [frame:1], cowboy hat [frame:2], reins [frame:3], dirt road [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: travel, rural setting, western genre; style notes: black-and-white, wide shots of landscape, medium close-ups on driver, natural outdoor lighting

A horse-drawn carriage travels along a dirt road in a rural landscape. A man in a cowboy hat is visible driving the carriage, and another person is seated beside him.

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 23:55 (passage 23:52–24:11); US record: No renewal found

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