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South of Santa Fe · Beat 100 · permalink

Private office

27:04–27:27 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 27:0627:06Frame at 27:1727:17Frame at 27:2627:26

Play from 27:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 47 · shots 226–228. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, light-colored dress with lace collar, dark hair styled in waves visible
  • older man, long gray hair and beard, wearing a dark robe with diamond patterns visible
  • man, wearing a light shirt and neckerchief, holding a hat and a gun visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman and an older man stand in a room. [frame:1]
  • A third man enters, holding a gun and a hat, and speaks to the others. [frame:2]
  • The room goes dark after someone says to put the heater away. [frame:3]
Also said
“Excuse me.” 27:16 · “Put that heater away.” 27:19
Seen
gun, hat, robe with diamond patterns, heater (mentioned)
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and abrupt; themes: suspense, unexpected interruption, rural setting contrast; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast lighting, abrupt cut to black

A woman and two men are in an interior room; one man holds a gun while another speaks about developing film and using a heater. The scene ends in darkness after a command to put the heater away.

“I was off shooting some scenery when I pulled the snatch, so I photographed the whole thing and then slipped away.” 27:04 · “We ought to get to a phone and notify the families.” 27:09 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 South of Santa Fe (1942) at 27:06 (passage 27:04–27:27); US record: No renewal found

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