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The Hitch-Hiker · Beat 61 · permalink

Field

27:45–32:24 Registered 1953

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 30:0430:04

Play from 27:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 133–133. 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
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark jacket, seated, holding a gun visible, audible
  • Bowen (named at t:28:05): man in light shirt, seated, facing p1 visible, audible
  • man in dark jacket, seated, partially obscured visible, audible
Also said
“I've got to find an excuse to raise the hood of the car and put that radio out of commission.” 30:40 · “They found Johnson's car.” 31:15
Seen
gun, watch, car
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: survival, moral decay, power dynamics; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing on seated figures, high contrast black-and-white

Three men are seated outdoors at night, one holding a gun; one man recounts his past thefts and philosophy while another plans to sabotage a car radio. A news report reveals they are being sought in the Chocolate Mountains of Arizona.

“Where'd you get the watch, Bowen?” 28:05 · “Broken-down jewelry store in a little jerk town outside of Tulsa.” 28:49 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 30:04 (passage 27:45–32:24); US record: No renewal found

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