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South of Santa Fe · Beat 98 · permalink

Private office

26:14–26:39 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 26:1526:15Frame at 26:2726:27

Play from 26:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 47 · shots 218–219. 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:2
People
  • man in cowboy hat and shirt, visible in frame 2 visible
  • older man with long white hair and patterned robe, visible in frame 2 visible
  • woman in light-colored dress, visible in frame 2 visible
Seen happening
  • A man gestures with his arm in a dark space. [frame:1]
  • Three people stand together in a room; one man speaks while gesturing. [frame:2]
Also said
“Time a man was in bed. Who do you think you are? Paul Revere? What happened? Why aren't you with a vifette? Just a snatch, that's all. A snatch? A kidnapping. The biggest one in history.” 26:22 · “You're not so outdated after all. Who's been kidnapped?” 26:36
Seen
cowboy hat, patterned robe, light-colored dress, belt with buckle
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: confrontation, kidnapping, regional identity; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast lighting, static framing

Three people stand in an interior space; one man gestures while speaking. The transcript mentions a kidnapping and addresses 'hillbillies'.

“Come on.” 26:14 · “- Well, it's about time. - Yeah.” 26:20 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 26:15 (passage 26:14–26:39); US record: No renewal found

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