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South of Santa Fe · Beat 12 · permalink

Field

2:17–2:27 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; 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 2:192:19Frame at 2:242:24

Play from 2:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 10 · shots 18–19. 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
  • bearded man wearing a wide-brimmed cowboy hat and dark coat, seated in a vehicle visible
  • group of riders on horseback, wearing hats and period Western attire visible
Seen happening
  • A group of riders on horseback moves through a hilly, brushy landscape. [frame:1]
  • A bearded man in a cowboy hat laughs while seated in a vehicle. [frame:2]
Seen
open-top vehicle, horses, cowboy hats, brush and hills
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted; themes: Western, humor, group travel; style notes: black-and-white, wide outdoor shot followed by medium close-up, natural lighting

A group of riders on horseback moves through a brushy, hilly landscape while a bearded man in a cowboy hat laughs from the driver's seat of an open vehicle. The transcript includes dialogue addressing a 'Mayor' and asking why 'Leapin' Liza' does not leap, followed by a request for help.

“Hey, Mayor, why doesn't Leapin' Liza leap?” 2:18 · “Well, are you waitin' to quit laughin' and lend a hand? Yes.” 2:23 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 2:19 (passage 2:17–2:27); US record: No renewal found

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