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South of Santa Fe · Beat 250 · permalink

Trail

52:08–52:39 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 1 name 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 52:2352:23Frame at 52:3952:39

Play from 52:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 148 · shots 504–505. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
trail (road, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
day evidence: frame:1
People
  • group of riders wearing cowboy hats, on horseback visible
Seen happening
  • Riders on horseback move along a trail in a mountainous landscape. [frame:1]
  • Screen cuts to black. [frame:2]
Seen
horses [frame:1], cowboy hats [frame:1], mountains [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: epic and concluding; themes: journey, western, group movement, day's end; style notes: wide shot of riders in natural landscape, followed by abrupt cut to black; high-contrast black-and-white cinematography

A group of riders on horseback moves along a trail in a mountainous landscape, followed by a cut to darkness. The transcript includes lyrics about riding down the trail until the day ends.

“Down the trail, we press along, till the happy day is through. And we sing our song as we roll along, down the trail, down the trail.” 52:19 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 52:23 (passage 52:08–52:39); US record: No renewal found

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