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The Painted Hills · Beat 283 · permalink

Mountain

1:01:10–1:01:39 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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:01:121:01:12Frame at 1:01:201:01:20Frame at 1:01:241:01:24Frame at 1:01:361:01:36

Play from 1:01:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 157 · shots 478–486. 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, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • dark clothing, adult, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • A person is visible walking on a snowy slope. [frame:1]
  • The person continues walking uphill on snow. [frame:2]
  • The person moves across rocky terrain with snow patches. [frame:3]
  • The person walks along a rocky edge under a cloudy sky. [frame:4]
Also said
“I'm not sure.” 61:34 · “I'm going to go.” 61:35
Seen
snow [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], rocks [frame:1, frame:3, frame:4], trees [frame:2, frame:3], cloudy sky [frame:1, frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solitary, determined; themes: solitude, decision, journey; style notes: wide shots, natural lighting, low contrast, silhouetted figure against sky

A person walks across a snowy, rocky landscape under a cloudy sky. The transcript contains repeated lines about going and uncertainty.

“I'm going to go.” 61:13 · “I'm going to go.” 61:26 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 1:01:12 (passage 1:01:10–1:01:39); US record: No renewal found

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