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South of Santa Fe · Beat 114 · permalink

Field

30:30–30:50 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 30:3230:32Frame at 30:4130:41Frame at 30:4430:44Frame at 30:4930:49

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

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 55 · shots 259–264. 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
  • man in dark jacket with light shoulder panel, seated on ground, hands bound visible, audible
  • man in light shirt with neckerchief, standing, speaking visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Man p1 is seated on ground with bound hands. [frame:1]
  • Man p2 stands and speaks, looking concerned. [frame:3]
Also said
“You mean they wanted us to get loose?” 30:44 · “We've got to get the other boys loose and find our horses. And try to catch an airplane? We've got to get word to the sheriff.” 30:45
Seen
bound hands [frame:1], brush and dry grass [frame:1], tree trunks [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: escape, suspicion, collaboration; style notes: medium close-ups, natural outdoor lighting, static camera, black-and-white film

Two men are tied up outdoors and discuss their situation, suspecting they were meant to escape. They plan to free others, find horses, and alert the sheriff.

“Boy, I've never been so glad to see you before. He sure did a good job of hog tying.” 30:32 · “Huh? I forgot an idea if they tied us up as good as they knew how.” 30:38 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 30:32 (passage 30:30–30:50); US record: No renewal found

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