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South of Santa Fe · Beat 35 · permalink

Bar

8:44–9:36 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; 4 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 9:039:03Frame at 9:239:23Frame at 9:279:27Frame at 9:329:32

Play from 8:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 20 · shots 67–70. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(bar, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • man in fedora and light-colored suit, standing, arms crossed visible
  • Ace Brody (named at t:9:12): man reclining in chair, wearing vest and tie, prominent mustache visible, audible
  • man in fedora and dark coat, standing, looking toward p1 visible
  • man in fedora and light coat, standing, leaning forward visible
Also said
“He was the best cattle wrestler in the Badlands.” 9:18 · “Keep the old spirit alive.” 9:31
Seen
bottle, table, fedora hats, wall sconce, sign reading 'RIDE With the'
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual and conversational, with undertones of nostalgia and local pride; themes: local identity, tradition versus modernity, community events; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static framing, studio lighting

In a bar, a man in a fedora and light coat speaks with others while a man named Ace Brody, described as a former cattle wrestler, reclines nearby. The conversation mentions a ten-day horse ride event in the Badlands and the involvement of vaqueros to preserve tradition.

“Three whiskeys, the best you got.” 8:48 · “That's Ace Brody.” 9:12 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 9:03 (passage 8:44–9:36); US record: No renewal found

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