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The Painted Hills · Beat 286 · permalink

Mountain

1:02:04–1:02:22 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; 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 1:02:081:02:08Frame at 1:02:161:02:16Frame at 1:02:171:02:17Frame at 1:02:211:02:21

Play from 1:02:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 157 · shots 492–497. 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:4
People
  • adult, wearing dark clothing, visible in snowy terrain visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Person walks through snow-covered rocks [frame:1]
  • Person is seen moving through snowy terrain [frame:2]
  • Person turns and gestures with arms [frame:3]
  • Person walks away across snow [frame:4]
Also said
“I'm going to go.” 62:17
Seen
snow [frame:1, frame:2, frame:4], rocks [frame:1, frame:2], trees [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: isolation, flight, survival; style notes: low-light outdoor shots, handheld or unstable framing, naturalistic setting

A person is seen moving through a snowy, rocky outdoor environment during what appears to be dusk or night. The person speaks briefly, expressing alarm and intent to leave.

“Yeah.” 62:11 · “Oh, my God.” 62:13 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 1:02:08 (passage 1:02:04–1:02:22); US record: No renewal found

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