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South of Santa Fe · Beat 132 · permalink

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33:00–33:40 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 33:1133:11Frame at 33:2533:25Frame at 33:3233:32Frame at 33:3933:39

Play from 33:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 66 · shots 288–291. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark Western shirt, white cowboy hat, bandana, belt with gun holster visible
  • man in patterned Western shirt, white cowboy hat, dark neckerchief, belt with gun holster visible
  • woman with curled hair, light-colored jacket over collared shirt visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Three people stand facing each other in a wooden-walled room, appearing to argue. [frame:1]
  • The woman looks upward with a concerned expression. [frame:2]
  • The two men face each other closely, appearing to confront one another. [frame:3]
  • The woman looks downward with a pensive expression. [frame:4]
Also said
“Mr. Harmon took movies of the whole thing.” 33:23 · “That's why Harmon wanted us to escape with our guns.” 33:35
Seen
wooden door with metal studs, cowboy hats, gun holsters, woman's jacket with decorative stitching
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and accusatory; themes: betrayal, staged crime, false accusation; style notes: medium close-ups and two-shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, Western costume design

Three people in Western attire are in a tense conversation inside a wooden-walled room; one woman and two men discuss a staged kidnapping and a sheriff's shooting. A man named Harmon is mentioned as having filmed the event, and the men realize they were set up to appear guilty.

“Well, what have you got to say for yourself?” 33:03 · “I'd like you to explain this crazy kidnapping business.” 33:08 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 33:11 (passage 33:00–33:40); US record: No renewal found

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