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Field

36:03–36:06 Registered 1953

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

Frame at 36:0536:05

Play from 36:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 48 · shots 161–161. 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
People
  • man in dark jacket and pants, standing, reaching forward visible
  • man in light pants and dark shirt, falling or crouching forward visible
  • man in dark clothing, standing behind p2, partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • A man in light pants stumbles or is pushed forward while another man reaches toward him. [frame:1]
Seen
rocky wall [frame:1], dirt ground [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, physical struggle; style notes: low-angle shot, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, medium shot framing

Three men are shown outdoors near a rocky wall; one man is falling or being pushed while another reaches toward him. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 36:05 (passage 36:03–36:06); US record: No renewal found

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