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South of Santa Fe · Beat 155 · permalink

Farm

36:31–36:52 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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 36:3436:34Frame at 36:3936:39Frame at 36:4536:45Frame at 36:5036:50

Play from 36:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 84 · shots 321–325. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
farm (farm, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat, dark shirt, and belt with holster visible, audible
  • person running in background, indistinct clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cowboy hat leans on a car while another person runs in the background. [frame:1]
  • The man in the cowboy hat opens the car door and looks inside. [frame:2]
  • The man is now on the ground beside the car, which is driving away. [frame:3]
  • The man stands up and looks toward the departing car. [frame:4]
Also said
“Or am I?” 36:48
Seen
car, barn, cowboy hat, gun holster, fence
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: gender roles, conflict over responsibility, rural setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium to long shots, outdoor natural lighting, Western genre framing

A man in a cowboy hat interacts with a car on a dirt lot near a barn while another person runs in the background. The transcript indicates a dispute over who will drive the car to town for movies, with one speaker refusing to let a girl do their work.

“Hey, I'm gonna need this car. I'm going in town to get those movies. They'd be shooting at you from every window.” 36:37 · “Hey, I ain't letting any girl do my work.” 36:45 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 36:34 (passage 36:31–36:52); US record: No renewal found

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