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South of Santa Fe · Beat 246 · permalink

Road

50:31–50:58 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 50:3450:34Frame at 50:3750:37Frame at 50:4850:48Frame at 50:5650:56

Play from 50:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 146 · shots 487–491. 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
  • man wearing a fedora and dark coat, visible in driver's seat visible
  • man wearing a fedora and dark coat, visible in passenger seat visible, audible
Seen
convertible car [frame:1], fedora hats [frame:2], rocky outcrop [frame:1], trees [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, nocturnal journey; style notes: low-key lighting, close framing on characters, high contrast black-and-white

Two men in hats are seen inside a convertible car parked near a rocky outcrop; one speaks the line 'Come on.' The scene is dark, suggesting night or heavy shadow, with trees visible in the background.

“Come on.” 50:32 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 50:34 (passage 50:31–50:58); US record: No renewal found

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