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18:56–19:07 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 18:5718:57Frame at 19:0319:03

Play from 18:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 41 · shots 125–126. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man with beard, wearing dark coat and light shirt visible
  • hand in dark sleeve, visible near book visible
Seen happening
  • A hand is visible near a book with a cross on its cover. [frame:1]
  • A bearded man in a dark coat stands outdoors near rocks. [frame:2]
Seen
book with cross on cover [frame:1], dark coat [frame:2], rocks and debris [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: suspicion, religious symbolism, outdoor confrontation; style notes: low-angle close-up on object, medium shot of character; natural lighting, grainy film texture

A man in a dark coat stands outdoors near rocks and debris while a voice apologizes and mentions someone was inside searching. A close-up shows a hand near a book with a cross on its cover.

“I'm sorry.” 18:56 · “He was inside searching around, snooping.” 19:04 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 18:57 (passage 18:56–19:07); US record: No renewal found

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