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South of Santa Fe · Beat 175 · permalink

Jail

39:31–39:47 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 39:3939:39

Play from 39:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 95 · shots 354–354. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
jail (jail, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man visible behind bars, wearing light shirt and dark vest, medium build visible, audible
  • man visible behind bars, wearing dark shirt, medium build visible, audible
  • Sheriff (named at t:39:31): unseen, implied by address 'Sheriff' mentioned, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men are seen behind jail bars, one gesturing while speaking. [frame:1]
Seen
jail bars, padlock
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: imprisonment, defiance, authority vs. individual; style notes: tight framing on barred cell, high-contrast lighting emphasizing confinement

Two men are visible behind jail bars, one speaking to a sheriff off-screen. The dialogue indicates they are protesting their confinement and mocking the threat of jail.

“Hey, Sheriff, let us out of here. I wasn't raised to be a convict.” 39:31 · “Hey, you don't stop that wrecking out. Oh, you'll do what? Throw us in jail, I suppose.” 39:41 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 39:39 (passage 39:31–39:47); US record: No renewal found

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