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South of Santa Fe · Beat 248 · permalink

Vehicle interior

51:31–51:49 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 51:3451:34Frame at 51:3751:37Frame at 51:4451:44

Play from 51:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 146 · shots 499–501. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a light-colored cowboy hat and light shirt, visible in frame 2 visible
  • man wearing a dark cowboy hat and dark coat, seated at a steering wheel, visible in frame 3 visible
  • man wearing a light cowboy hat and dark vest, standing near vehicle, visible in frame 1 visible
Seen happening
  • Men are gathered around a vehicle at night. [frame:1]
  • A man in a light cowboy hat speaks to another man. [frame:2]
  • A man in a dark cowboy hat sits at the wheel of a vehicle. [frame:3]
Also said
“Well, ain't you sure about that?” 51:34 · “You know them newfangled bulletproof vests come in handy once in a while.” 51:42
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3], vehicle with steering wheel [frame:1, frame:3], bulletproof vest (mentioned) [t:51:42]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: Western genre, dialogue-driven scene, nighttime setting; style notes: black-and-white, low-key lighting, close framing on faces and vehicle interior

Three men in cowboy hats are gathered around a vehicle at night, discussing Western methods and bulletproof vests. One man is driving while the others stand nearby, visible in dim lighting.

“Well, looks like we're all here.” 51:34 · “Yeah, I guess the old Western methods are still the best after all.” 51:34 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 51:34 (passage 51:31–51:49); US record: No renewal found

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