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South of Santa Fe · Beat 157 · permalink

Field

36:56–37:14 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: period without evidence. 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 37:0037:00Frame at 37:0937:09

Play from 36:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 86 · shots 327–328. 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
  • J.B. (named at t:36:57): man wearing cowboy hat, dark jacket with fringe, light pants, belt with gun holster visible, audible
  • Mac (named at t:37:06): man wearing cowboy hat, plaid shirt, light pants, belt visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The men stand facing each other in a rocky outdoor area. [frame:1]
  • The men remain standing, with one gesturing slightly. [frame:2]
Also said
“Probably tumble down on our heads any minute.” 37:04 · “I'm afraid that's the least of our worries now, Mac. Come on, break it up.” 37:06
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1], gun holsters [frame:1], plaid shirt [frame:1], fringed jacket [frame:1], rocky terrain [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and pragmatic; themes: frontier danger, interpersonal conflict, historical setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium two-shot, naturalistic lighting, Western costume and setting

Two men in cowboy hats stand in a rocky outdoor setting, speaking about the age and danger of the location. One man urges the other to stop arguing, noting they are not in a director's meeting.

“J.B., November 4th, 1883.” 36:57 · “I bet there hasn't been anybody in the place since.” 37:01 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 37:00 (passage 36:56–37:14); US record: No renewal found

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