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The Painted Hills · Beat 294 · permalink

Mountain

1:03:47–1:04:17 Registered 1951

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 1 name 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 1:03:511:03:51Frame at 1:04:021:04:02Frame at 1:04:051:04:05Frame at 1:04:131:04:13

Play from 1:03:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 158 · shots 516–521. 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
  • older man with white hair and beard, wearing a light shirt and dark pants visible
Seen happening
  • A snowy mountain landscape is shown. [frame:1]
  • A hand holds a revolver. [frame:2]
  • The man stands holding the revolver against the mountain backdrop. [frame:3]
  • The man bends over, appearing distressed. [frame:4]
Seen
revolver, revolver
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and somber; themes: isolation, confrontation, departure; style notes: wide landscape shots contrasted with close-ups of the weapon and the man's strained posture; high-contrast lighting against the snow

A man in a snowy mountain landscape says he is going to leave. He is shown holding a revolver and then bending over as if in pain or exhaustion.

“I'm going to go.” 63:52 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 1:03:51 (passage 1:03:47–1:04:17); US record: No renewal found

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