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South of Santa Fe · Beat 18 · permalink

Road

3:22–3:34 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; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 3:233:23Frame at 3:273:27Frame at 3:333:33

Play from 3:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 12 · shots 30–32. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, bearded, wearing dark coat and wide-brimmed hat visible, audible
  • younger man, clean-shaven, wearing light-colored cowboy hat and coat visible, audible
  • man in dark hat, partially visible behind p1, near vehicle visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a white hat stands near a vehicle and speaks to the bearded man. [frame:2]
Also said
“Is that so?” 3:27 · “We'll hand over that mail. This is an outrage. A dead burned outrage.” 3:28
Seen
mail [frame:1], vehicle [frame:2], cowboy hats [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: confrontational; themes: conflict over mail, western standoff, defiance; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast black-and-white, outdoor natural lighting

A man with a beard and hat holds mail and defies others; another man in a white hat confronts him near a vehicle. The transcript indicates a dispute over mail delivery, described as an outrage.

“I got them letters right here in my pocket.” 3:22 · “And they ain't none of you varmint men enough to take them away from me.” 3:24 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 3:23 (passage 3:22–3:34); US record: No renewal found

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