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South of Santa Fe · Beat 80 · permalink

Field

20:32–21:07 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 20:3620:36Frame at 20:4120:41Frame at 21:0121:01Frame at 21:0621:06

Play from 20:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 41 · shots 159–163. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in cowboy hat and light shirt, holding reins, on horseback visible, audible
  • man in cowboy hat and dark shirt, standing near horse visible
  • man in cowboy hat and light shirt, smiling, seated on horse visible
  • man in cowboy hat, partially visible, facing p1 visible
Also said
“How's for a little excitement to show the folks back home such as?” 20:53 · “You and those cowboys you work with could come riding in, shooting and yelling and capture us.” 21:00
Seen
horse [frame:1], vehicle with canvas top [frame:1], cowboy hats [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], reins [frame:2], belt with buckle [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted and playful; themes: cowboy camaraderie, staged action for entertainment, Western adventure tropes; style notes: black-and-white, outdoor medium shots, natural lighting, Western costume and setting

A group of men in cowboy attire are gathered outdoors near a vehicle and horses, discussing a planned staged hold-up for entertainment. One man on horseback mentions being stiff from riding and suggests others could stage a capture scene.

“Make sure you've got everything you need. We'll meet you at the lunch stop.” 20:32 · “Don't let Gabby drive you over a cliff. I'll follow with the horses. You needn't hurry. I'm so stiff from riding, I can't look a horse in the face.” 20:37 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 20:36 (passage 20:32–21:07); US record: No renewal found

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