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South of Santa Fe · Beat 234 · permalink

Field

49:07–49:38 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 49:0949:09Frame at 49:1849:18Frame at 49:2549:25Frame at 49:3649:36

Play from 49:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 136 · shots 459–472. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a hat and dark coat, holding a rifle visible
  • man in hat and dark coat, standing in group visible
  • man's hand handling paper money visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a hat holds a rifle in a rocky outdoor area at night. [frame:1]
  • A man in a hat aims a rifle from behind a rock. [frame:2]
  • A group of men in hats stand together in a rocky area. [frame:3]
  • A hand holds paper money. [frame:4]
Also said
“Come on.” 49:22
Seen
rifle, paper money, hats
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, nighttime action, money exchange; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, low-key lighting, medium and close shots

A group of armed men in hats are shown in a rocky outdoor setting at night, with one man holding a rifle and another handling money. The transcript includes the words 'Come on.'

“it” 49:07 · “Come on.” 49:18 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 49:09 (passage 49:07–49:38); US record: No renewal found

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