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South of Santa Fe · Beat 46 · permalink

Town square

13:34–13:59 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 13:3813:38Frame at 13:4613:46Frame at 13:5513:55

Play from 13:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 98–100. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
town_square (town square, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • young male, wearing plaid shirt, singing visible
  • young male, wearing vest and shirt, smiling visible
  • group of people in cowboy hats and western attire, some holding instruments visible
Seen happening
  • People are gathered outdoors in a town square setting. [frame:1]
  • A group of people in cowboy hats are seated and standing on a porch or balcony. [frame:2]
  • Two young males are singing, one holding a microphone or instrument. [frame:3]
Also said
“Throw a rope around the sun as he rolls by so you can keep him shining bright way up in the sky.” 13:34
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1], microphone or instrument [frame:3], porch or balcony with railing [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted and musical; themes: cowboy culture, community gathering, musical performance; style notes: black-and-white, medium to close-up shots, outdoor setting with natural lighting

A group of people in cowboy attire are gathered outdoors, some singing and playing instruments. The scene includes a wide shot of a crowd and close-ups of individuals performing.

“Saddle your worries to a cowboy song and yodel your troubles away.” 13:34 · “Randall your sorrows as you go along with a yippee-yo, ki-yay.” 13:34 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 13:38 (passage 13:34–13:59); US record: No renewal found

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