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South of Santa Fe · Beat 206 · permalink

Private office

45:45–46:26 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 45:5845:58Frame at 46:1546:15Frame at 46:2246:22

Play from 45:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 116 · shots 414–416. 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
  • woman, mid-20s to 30s, wearing a light-colored suit jacket with western-style stitching, shoulder-length wavy hair visible, audible
  • Sheriff (named at t:45:46): man, 40s to 50s, wearing a dark suit, striped tie, and a wide-brimmed hat, carrying a revolver on his hip visible, audible
Seen happening
  • An exterior street scene with buildings and a parked truck is shown. [frame:3]
Also said
“Well, if I was to let them go and they turned out to be guilty, I'd get lynched.” 46:01 · “Besides, I promised the families that I wouldn't move until they said so.” 46:15
Seen
revolver, desk, bookshelf, truck, building with awning
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: authority vs. justice, community pressure, distrust; style notes: medium close-ups in interior, high-contrast lighting; exterior wide shot with deep shadows and bright sky

A woman and a man in a sheriff's hat argue inside a room; the man refuses to release detained boys, citing promises to families. An exterior shot shows a street with a parked truck and buildings.

“I guess that proves what I've been telling you, Sheriff.” 45:46 · “I guess those mining men weren't there either. Then you let the boys out and arrest Harmon? Well, not so fast.” 45:52 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 45:58 (passage 45:45–46:26); US record: No renewal found

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