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South of Santa Fe · Beat 27 · permalink

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5:32–5:55 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 5:435:43

Play from 5:32 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 17 · shots 46–46. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man with white beard, wearing a dark hat and overcoat visible
  • man wearing a light-colored cowboy hat, patterned coat, and neckerchief visible
  • woman with dark wavy hair, wearing a light-colored checkered blouse with a tied neck visible
Also said
“Well, nobody's gonna wake up this time.” 5:45 · “But those city men probably never even heard of the Vaccaro. Eh, everybody's heard of the Vaccaro's. Spirit of the Old West. Whitaker City's claim to fame. Well, what if they aren't interested in the spirit of the Old West?” 5:50
Seen
cowboy hat [frame:1], checkered blouse [frame:1], overcoat [frame:1], neckerchief [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: revenge fantasy, Old West mythology, urban vs rural; style notes: medium shot, studio-lit, black-and-white, static framing, period Western costumes

Three people discuss a plan to lure city men to a location by inviting them to ride with vaqueros, referencing the 'Vaccaro' as a symbol of the Old West. One person mentions having dreamed of roping and hogtying people before, but insists this time will be real.

“Oh, and it could be, Gabby, if we could only get them all up here at once to look at it. We could only rope them and hogtie them and stick their noses down that mine shaft. I've done that a thousand times.” 5:32 · “And then I always woke up.” 5:42 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 5:43 (passage 5:32–5:55); US record: No renewal found

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