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West of the Divide · Beat 97 · permalink

Field

24:15–24:31 Registered 1934

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 24:2324:23

Play from 24:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 56 · shots 169–169. 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 cowboy hat and dark shirt, seated visible
  • person wearing light-colored hat, seated, partially obscured visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark cowboy hat sits beside another person in a light hat. [frame:1]
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1], dark shirt [frame:1], light-colored hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: reflective; themes: companionship, western setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, natural outdoor lighting

A man in a dark cowboy hat and shirt sits beside another person in a light hat, outdoors. The transcript includes a line spoken at 24:19 referring to shared rides.

“Well, fellow, we sure had some rides, didn't we?” 24:19 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 24:23 (passage 24:15–24:31); US record: No renewal found

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