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South of Santa Fe · Beat 161 · permalink

Private office

37:51–38:16 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 37:5437:54Frame at 38:0038:00Frame at 38:0938:09Frame at 38:1538:15

Play from 37:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 88 · shots 334–337. 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
  • Joe (named at t:37:52): man in dark coat and fedora, holding a cigarette visible, audible
  • Louie (named at t:37:54): man in dark coat and fedora, standing beside Joe visible, audible
  • Moxie (named at t:38:04): man in dark coat and fedora, seated at table visible, audible
  • man in dark coat and fedora, partially visible at table visible
  • man in dark coat and fedora, standing behind others visible
Seen happening
  • The group gathers around a table with a lantern, preparing for a mission. [frame:1]
Also said
“Then blow up both engines.” 38:08 · “So long, fellas. See you in the night spot.” 38:16
Seen
lantern, table, cigarette, fedora hats, coats
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: crime planning, noir aesthetics, male camaraderie under pressure; style notes: black-and-white, low-key lighting with a single lantern source, medium close-ups emphasizing dialogue and facial expressions

A group of men in hats and coats gather around a table with a lantern, discussing a plan involving a Model T4 and blowing up engines. One man, identified as Joe, gives instructions while others, including Louie and Moxie, respond and prepare to leave.

“This is Joe.” 37:52 · “That's the payoff man, model T4. You know the rest.” 37:58 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 37:54 (passage 37:51–38:16); US record: No renewal found

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