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The Painted Hills · Beat 67 · permalink

Log cabin exterior

20:30–21:00 Registered 1951

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 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 20:3820:38Frame at 20:5320:53

Play from 20:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 43 · shots 135–136. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
log cabin exterior (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man with long white beard, black hat, dark coat visible
  • older man with white hair and beard, light shirt visible
  • man in light shirt, standing in doorway visible
  • man in light shirt, holding dog leash visible
  • man in light shirt, standing near horse visible
Seen happening
  • Men stand outside a log cabin with a dog and horse. [frame:1]
  • Two older men face each other and appear to converse. [frame:2]
Also said
“But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.” 20:53 · “Matthew 6:19.” 20:57
Seen
log cabin [frame:1], dog [frame:1], horse [frame:1], hat [frame:2], beard [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn; themes: religion, community, frontier life; style notes: medium shots, natural lighting, period costume

A group of men stand outside a log cabin while one speaks scripture. A dog is present and one man gestures during conversation.

“The Lord be with you in all your labors.” 20:45 · “Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth.” 20:49 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 20:38 (passage 20:30–21:00); US record: No renewal found

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