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South of Santa Fe · Beat 184 · permalink

Road

41:20–41:35 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 41:2241:22Frame at 41:2741:27Frame at 41:3141:31Frame at 41:3441:34

Play from 41:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 101 · shots 369–372. 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
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
Period
1940s evidence: t:41:21
People
  • Grandpa (named at t:41:31): older man with beard, wearing dark suit and wide-brimmed hat, seated in vehicle visible, audible
  • man in suit and fedora, standing outside vehicle holding rifle visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a hat sits in a vehicle while another man stands outside holding a rifle. [frame:1]
  • The standing man is shown holding a rifle, looking toward the seated man. [frame:3]
Also said
“Up in an old rustler's hideout.” 41:29 · “But you won't have to worry about them anymore, Grandpa.” 41:31
Seen
vehicle [frame:1], rifle [frame:3], wide-brimmed hat [frame:1], fedora [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: confrontation, kidnapping, family address ('Grandpa'), rural crime; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, medium shots focusing on character interaction, period costume and vehicle design

Two men in hats stand near a vehicle at night; one is seated inside, the other stands outside holding a rifle. Dialogue mentions kidnapped people being held at a rustler's hideout and addresses one man as 'Grandpa.'

“Yeah, it looks like it's all there. Certainly it's all there.” 41:21 · “How about them poor folks you skunks kidnap?” 41:25 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 41:22 (passage 41:20–41:35); US record: No renewal found

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