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The Hitch-Hiker · Beat 64 · permalink

Road

33:09–33:13 Registered 1953

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 33:1133:11

Play from 33:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 39 · shots 137–137. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
road (road, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark jacket, holding car hood open visible
  • man in light shirt, leaning into car engine visible
  • man in leather jacket, standing at left visible
Seen happening
  • A man holds up the hood of a car while another inspects the engine. [frame:1]
Seen
car [frame:1], car hood [frame:1], rocky terrain [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: mechanical trouble, group interaction, roadside; style notes: medium shot, black and white, natural lighting, outdoor setting

Three men are gathered around the open hood of a car in a rocky outdoor setting. One man holds the car's hood up while another leans into the engine compartment, and a third stands nearby observing.

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 33:11 (passage 33:09–33:13); US record: No renewal found

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