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South of Santa Fe · Beat 112 · permalink

Private office

30:07–30:28 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 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 30:1030:10Frame at 30:1730:17Frame at 30:2230:22Frame at 30:2630:26

Play from 30:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 55 · shots 254–257. 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 coat and fedora, stern expression visible
  • older man in light coat and fedora, speaking visible, audible
  • man lying on ground, wearing dark shirt and belt, knife in hand visible
  • man in suit and hat, standing in crowd visible
Seen happening
  • A man is lying on the ground outdoors near a fallen tree. [frame:4]
Also said
“All right, we'll do it. You get the money and I'll act as pay off man.” 30:14 · “You're stretched, Denny?” 30:23
Seen
fedora hat [frame:1], knife [frame:4], fallen tree [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: negotiation, danger, outdoor peril; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups indoors, wide shot outdoors, high contrast lighting

A group of men in hats discuss paying a ransom indoors, while another scene shows a man lying on the ground outdoors near a fallen tree. One man is asked if he is stretched, and he replies affirmatively.

“We're empowered to pay any ransom.” 30:07 · “We'll take care of the whole thing temporarily.” 30:09 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 30:10 (passage 30:07–30:28); US record: No renewal found

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