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South of Santa Fe · Beat 133 · permalink

Private office

33:40–34:02 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; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 33:4333:43Frame at 33:5233:52Frame at 33:5433:54Frame at 34:0134:01

Play from 33:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 66 · shots 292–297. 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, cowboy hat, dark shirt, bandana around neck visible
  • man, light cowboy hat, patterned shirt, dark vest visible
  • woman, wavy hair, denim jacket over collared shirt visible
Seen happening
  • Two men in cowboy hats stand facing each other indoors. [frame:1]
  • A woman looks upward and to her right. [frame:3]
  • An open field with trees and hills is shown. [frame:4]
Also said
“Oh, wait a minute. Did I?” 33:49 · “That all proved that those movies weren't of the real kidnapping.” 33:57
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1], bandana [frame:1], denim jacket [frame:3], trees and hills [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confused; themes: misunderstanding, film as evidence, identity in media; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups on characters, static camera, high-contrast lighting

Two men in cowboy hats and a woman in a denim jacket are shown in interior shots, followed by an exterior shot of a tree-lined field. Dialogue references movies, a kidnapping, and confusion over whether someone was present in filmed scenes.

“You didn't see us in Harmon's movies.” 33:45 · “I certainly did.” 33:47 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 33:43 (passage 33:40–34:02); US record: No renewal found

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