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The Painted Hills · Beat 104 · permalink

Mountain

29:12–29:32 Registered 1951

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 29:1529:15Frame at 29:2029:20Frame at 29:2529:25Frame at 29:3029:30

Play from 29:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 60 · shots 199–202. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
mountain (mountain, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, dark hair, wearing light shirt and dark pants, medium build visible
  • person wearing light shirt and hat, partially visible behind p1 visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands on a rocky ledge, gesturing with his arm. [frame:1]
  • A person climbs a steep rock face. [frame:2]
  • The man gestures again while standing beside another person on the ledge. [frame:3]
  • A person climbs down a narrow rock crevice. [frame:4]
Also said
“Oh, my God.” 29:22 · “Let's go.” 29:23
Seen
rocky cliff [frame:1], pine trees [frame:1], mountain range in background [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: survival, danger, teamwork; style notes: wide shots emphasize scale and danger; natural lighting suggests outdoor setting; framing isolates characters against vast landscape

Two people are on a rocky cliffside; one gestures while the other climbs. They speak briefly, expressing urgency and alarm, before moving forward.

“It's a ledge just beyond.” 29:16 · “Amen.” 29:17 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 Painted Hills (1951) at 29:15 (passage 29:12–29:32); US record: No renewal found

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