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The Hitch-Hiker · Beat 18 · permalink

Field

15:18–15:38 Registered 1953

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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 15:2815:28

Play from 15:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 9 · shots 42–42. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark jacket, holding a gun, standing beside car visible, audible
  • man in light jacket, standing near car, hands clasped visible
Also said
“Give me the map” 15:30
Seen
car [frame:1], gun [frame:1], rock formation [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, outdoor setting, power imbalance; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, natural lighting, static framing

Two men stand beside a car in a rocky outdoor setting; one holds a gun and demands a map while the other is told to place a can near rocks. No names are established for the individuals beyond the spoken word 'Collins' which is not clearly assigned to a visible person.

“Collins.” 15:22 · “Put the can out in that rock there.” 15:23 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 The Hitch-Hiker (1953) at 15:28 (passage 15:18–15:38); US record: No renewal found

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