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The Hitch-Hiker · Beat 93 · permalink

Sidewalk

45:59–45:59 Registered 1953

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name 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 45:5945:59

Play from 45:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 63 · shots 190–190. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • wearing light-colored trousers and a dark, shiny shoe visible
Seen happening
  • A foot in a dark shoe steps forward on a paved surface. [frame:1]
Seen
shoe, trousers, pavement
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; style notes: tight close-up, high-contrast black-and-white, focused on movement and texture

A close-up shows a person's foot in a dark shoe stepping on a paved surface. No other people, objects, or events are visible 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 45:59 (passage 45:59–45:59); US record: No renewal found

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