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South of Santa Fe · Beat 42 · permalink

Trail

12:12–12:41 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; 8 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 12:1612:16Frame at 12:3112:31

Play from 12:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 22 · shots 89–90. 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
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat and shirt, riding horse visible
  • man wearing cowboy hat, riding horse, visible in foreground visible
  • man wearing cowboy hat, riding horse, visible in background visible
  • man wearing cowboy hat, riding horse, visible near wagon visible
  • man wearing cowboy hat, riding horse, visible on right visible
  • man wearing cowboy hat, riding horse, visible near center visible
  • man wearing cowboy hat, riding horse, visible in rear visible
  • man wearing cowboy hat, riding horse, visible near left visible
Seen happening
  • Riders move along a trail with a covered wagon. [frame:1]
  • Group continues riding, with mountains in background. [frame:2]
Also said
“Down the trail, down the trail.” 12:25 · “You better drop out of line, Harmon. Your horse is limping.” 12:34
Seen
horses [frame:1], covered wagon [frame:1], cowboy hats [frame:1], mountains [frame:1], trail [frame:1], saddles [frame:1], reins [frame:1], dust [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: open, journeying; themes: journey, western travel, group movement, trail riding; style notes: wide shot, black and white, natural lighting, group composition, outdoor scale

A group of riders on horseback travels along a trail with mountains in the background; one rider is told his horse is limping. The scene is outdoors during daylight, with no interior or named characters visible.

“Down the trail we press along 'til the happy day is through.” 12:12 · “And we sing our song as we roll along.” 12:20 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 12:16 (passage 12:12–12:41); US record: No renewal found

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