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The Painted Hills · Beat 107 · permalink

Field

29:41–29:52 Registered 1951

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 29:4229:42Frame at 29:4729:47

Play from 29:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 62 · shots 205–206. 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 with dark curly hair and beard, wearing light shirt and dark pants, standing visible
  • older man with white beard, wearing hat and light shirt, sitting visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands on rocky ground looking off-camera. [frame:1]
  • Two men are together on rocky ground; one is seated, the other standing. [frame:2]
Also said
“down on the ledge.” 29:48
Seen
hat [frame:2], belt [frame:2], rocky terrain [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or inquisitive; themes: search, outdoor setting, dialogue-driven; style notes: medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, rugged terrain

Two men are outdoors on rocky terrain; one stands while the other sits. A voice asks where something is, calling it a big thing down on the ledge.

“Well, where is it?” 29:46 · “It's a big thing.” 29:47 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 29:42 (passage 29:41–29:52); US record: No renewal found

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