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South of Santa Fe · Beat 78 · permalink

Private office

19:32–20:13 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 19:5319:53

Play from 19:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 39 · shots 157–157. 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 light shirt and dark pants, holding a hat, standing in doorway visible, audible
  • man in dark shirt and pants, standing near doorway visible, audible
  • man in light uniform with cap, standing in background visible
Also said
“Hello, Louie.” 20:05 · “Check the oil and the batteries. Where's all this friendly service I hear about?” 20:09
Seen
hat, lamp, doorway
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual and slightly impatient; themes: travel planning, service complaint, outdoor adventure; style notes: medium shot, static framing, studio lighting, black-and-white, mid-20th century costume

Two men converse in a doorway while a third man in uniform stands nearby; one man mentions driving to a mine and meeting vaqueros, while another calls out to someone named Louie and complains about service. The scene is indoors, with visible hats and a lamp, and the dialogue references cars, horses, and maintenance.

“Now the mine isn't very far out of the way,” 19:32 · “You can go by car and I'll follow with the horses.” 19:34 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 19:53 (passage 19:32–20:13); US record: No renewal found

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