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The Painted Hills · Beat 47 · permalink

Riverbank

15:26–15:31 Registered 1951

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 15:2815:28

Play from 15:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 30 · shots 96–96. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
riverbank (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing light-colored shirt and dark trousers, standing visible
  • man wearing orange shirt and dark trousers, seated on rocks visible
Seen
wooden sluice boxes [frame:1], river with rapids [frame:1], rocks and trees [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: outdoor labor, rural setting; style notes: wide shot, natural lighting, outdoor setting with emphasis on landscape and activity

Two men are visible near a riverbank with wooden sluice boxes; one sits while the other stands. The setting is outdoors beside a flowing river with rocky banks and trees.

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 15:28 (passage 15:26–15:31); US record: No renewal found

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