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South of Santa Fe · Beat 97 · permalink

Hallway

26:00–26:14 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 26:0326:03Frame at 26:0926:09Frame at 26:1326:13

Play from 26:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 47 · shots 215–217. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
hallway (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • dark clothing, visible in shadow visible
  • Gabby (named at t:26:05): light-colored top, dark skirt, holding candle visible
  • light-colored long dress, back to camera visible
Seen happening
  • A figure stands in shadow near a doorway. [frame:1]
  • Two figures face each other in a hallway; one holds a candle. [frame:2]
  • A figure in a light dress enters a doorway while another follows. [frame:3]
Also said
“Somebody must think it's Halloween.” 26:05
Seen
candle, doorway, doorway
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: mysterious, tense; themes: identity, deception, encounter; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, tight framing in hallway

Two figures interact in a dimly lit interior; one holds a candle while the other approaches. A third figure in a light dress enters a doorway as the first two remain in the hallway.

“Is that you, Gabby?” 26:05 · “Eh? It is and it ain't.” 26:05 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 26:03 (passage 26:00–26:14); US record: No renewal found

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