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The Painted Hills · Beat 297 · permalink

Mountain

1:04:25–1:04:41 Registered 1951

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

Frame at 1:04:271:04:27Frame at 1:04:311:04:31Frame at 1:04:371:04:37

Play from 1:04:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 158 · shots 525–527. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
mountain (mountain, exterior) evidence: frame:2
Time of day
night evidence: frame:2
People
  • bearded man, wearing dark shirt, seen from below visible
  • person in dark clothing, lying on snow visible
Seen happening
  • A bearded man looks down from a low-angle shot against a cloudy sky. [frame:1]
  • A wide shot shows a snow-covered mountain range at night. [frame:2]
  • A person is seen lying on a snowy slope. [frame:3]
Seen
snow [frame:2], mountains [frame:2], clouds [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, ominous; themes: danger, isolation, nature; style notes: low-angle shot, wide landscape, night lighting, high contrast

A man with a beard is shown outdoors at night against a cloudy sky, followed by a wide shot of a snow-covered mountain range and a person falling on a snowy slope. The transcript contains two exclamations of 'Oh, my God.'

“Oh, my God.” 64:26 · “Oh, my God.” 64:29 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 1:04:27 (passage 1:04:25–1:04:41); US record: No renewal found

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