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West of the Divide · Beat 98 · permalink

Field

24:31–24:38 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 24:3524:35

Play from 24:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 56 · shots 170–170. 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
  • adult male, wearing a dark cowboy hat and dark shirt, holding a child visible, audible
  • child, wearing a light-colored hat and light shirt, being held by p1 visible
Seen happening
  • A man holds a child in an embrace outdoors. [frame:1]
Seen
cowboy hat [frame:1], child's hat [frame:1], light shirt (child) [frame:1], dark shirt (man) [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tender, consoling; themes: parent-child bond, comfort in distress; style notes: medium close-up, black-and-white, natural outdoor lighting, focused on emotional interaction

A man in a cowboy hat embraces a child outdoors. The man speaks to the child, suggesting they sit down and compose themselves.

“Come on, son, let's go sit down and kind of pull ourselves together.” 24:32 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 24:35 (passage 24:31–24:38); US record: No renewal found

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