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South of Santa Fe · Beat 247 · permalink

Desert

50:58–51:31 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 50:5950:59Frame at 51:0851:08Frame at 51:1251:12Frame at 51:2651:26

Play from 50:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 146 · shots 492–498. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
desert (desert, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man wearing a cowboy hat and dark coat, seen from behind visible
  • Roy (named at t:51:02): man in cowboy hat, visible in group on horseback visible
  • unspecified person speaking audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cowboy hat is seen from behind, looking out over a desert road. [frame:2]
  • Several men on horseback are visible in a desert landscape. [frame:4]
Seen
cowboy hat [frame:3], horse [frame:4], desert road [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or concerned, due to the dialogue and isolated desert setting; themes: western, isolation, concern for同伴; style notes: black-and-white, wide shots of landscape, medium shots of characters; lighting suggests outdoor natural light

A man in a cowboy hat is shown from behind, then with others on horseback in a desert landscape. One person asks if Roy is all right, and Roy replies yes.

“You all right, Roy?” 51:02 · “Yeah.” 51:02 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 50:59 (passage 50:58–51:31); US record: No renewal found

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