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South of Santa Fe · Beat 74 · permalink

Private office

17:48–18:47 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; 7 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 18:0318:03Frame at 18:2718:27Frame at 18:4218:42

Play from 17:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 39 · shots 143–145. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark shirt and tie, holding a folder, standing near a door visible
  • woman in light dress, standing near p1 visible
  • man in plaid shirt and light pants, holding small rocks visible
  • man in dark jacket with fur trim, standing with hands on hips visible
  • Moreland (named at t:18:24): man in dark jacket with decorative collar and medals, standing at right visible
  • man in light shirt, partially visible behind p3 visible
  • woman in light dress, standing behind p4 visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand close, speaking privately. [frame:1]
  • A group of men and a woman stand together, listening to someone speak. [frame:2]
  • A man in a plaid shirt examines rocks on a table while others look on. [frame:3]
Also said
“Mayor of Whittaker City and charter member of the Vaccaros.” 18:12 · “Stevens? I thought that name sounded familiar. I'm not surprised, Mr. Moreland.” 18:24
Seen
folder, door, table with rocks, decorative jacket with medals, plaid shirt, fur-trimmed jacket
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and revealing; themes: deception, business proposition, social gathering; style notes: medium shots, static framing, studio lighting, period costumes

A man and a woman speak privately before a group of men is addressed by a man in a decorated jacket. The group includes a man in a plaid shirt and another in a fur-trimmed jacket, standing near a table with rocks.

“Chin up.” 17:50 · “But when they find out we've deceived them, I'm afraid-- We didn't deceive them. All we did was invite them for a ride.” 17:54 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 18:03 (passage 17:48–18:47); US record: No renewal found

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