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South of Santa Fe · Beat 111 · permalink

Private office

29:34–30:07 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 29:3829:38Frame at 29:4329:43Frame at 29:5829:58Frame at 30:0330:03

Play from 29:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 55 · shots 249–253. 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 with white beard, wearing dark jacket and bow tie, holding a small bag visible
  • woman with dark hair, wearing a light coat visible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, stern expression visible
  • man in light suit and fedora, speaking to p3 visible
  • man in cowboy hat and dark suit visible
Seen happening
  • A man with a white beard holds a bag while speaking to others. [frame:4]
Seen
white bag, fedora hats, cowboy hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: extortion, community pressure, impossible demand; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, period costumes

A group of people, including a man with a white beard and a woman in a coat, are gathered indoors. A demand for $250,000 by tonight is spoken, and the group discusses the impossibility of raising the money locally.

“Police interference means death of all concern. Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars by tonight.” 29:34 · “Where are we gonna get a quarter of a million dollars by tonight? Well, we local people couldn't dig up half that much in a month.” 29:58 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 29:38 (passage 29:34–30:07); US record: No renewal found

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