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South of Santa Fe · Beat 102 · permalink

Private office

28:05–28:31 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; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 28:0728:07Frame at 28:1228:12Frame at 28:1828:18Frame at 28:2528:25

Play from 28:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 48 · shots 231–235. 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
  • man in dark suit and fedora, carrying briefcase visible
  • Mr. Conway (named at t:28:07): man in dark suit and fedora, standing center, speaking visible, audible
  • man in pinstripe suit and fedora, eyes closed, standing center visible
  • man in cowboy hat and bandana, standing right visible
  • Mr. Reed (named at t:28:10): man in dark suit and fedora, speaking to Mr. Conway visible, audible
  • older man with bald head and suit, standing left visible
Seen happening
  • Men enter a room carrying briefcases and hats. [frame:1]
  • A man in a pinstripe suit stands with eyes closed among others. [frame:3]
  • A group gathers around a table with a hat and equipment on it. [frame:4]
Also said
“This fellow here claims he's gonna show us what happened.” 28:17 · “Turn on.” 28:23
Seen
briefcase [frame:1], fedora hats [frame:2], pinstripe suit [frame:3], cowboy hat [frame:3], table with equipment and hat [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and procedural; themes: legal confrontation, evidence presentation, group dynamics; style notes: medium shots, static framing, studio lighting, period costumes

A group of men in suits and hats gather in a room with furniture and artwork; one man is identified by speech as Mr. Conway, Peter Morland's lawyer, and another as Mr. Reed, representing Prentiss and McMahon. They discuss arriving by chartered plane and preparing to view evidence.

“Mr. Conway, Peter Morland's lawyer.” 28:07 · “This is Mr. Reed, who represents Prentiss and McMahon. Have you heard anything? We chartered a plane and came as fast as we could.” 28:10 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 28:07 (passage 28:05–28:31); US record: No renewal found

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