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The Painted Hills · Beat 9 · permalink

Field

1:57–2:44 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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:581:58Frame at 2:152:15Frame at 2:312:31Frame at 2:422:42

Play from 1:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 7 · shots 8–23. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man with white beard and turban, wearing light-colored shirt, lying on ground visible
Seen happening
  • A dog stands on a rock against a cloudy sky. [frame:1]
  • A dog with brown and white fur stands in dirt. [frame:2]
  • The dog digs in the dirt with its front paw. [frame:3]
  • A man with a white beard and turban lies on the ground, looking upward. [frame:4]
Also said
“Dig! Keep digging! That's million dollar dirt. We've hit it this time, Shep.” 2:29 · “I'm John near being the richest corpse in the territory.” 2:40
Seen
dog, rock, dirt, man with turban
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and frantic; themes: desperation, search for wealth, human-animal cooperation; style notes: low-angle shots of dog and man, natural outdoor lighting, close-ups on action

A dog digs in dirt while a man with a white beard and turban lies on the ground nearby. The transcript includes urgent commands to dig and references to 'million dollar dirt' and being the 'richest corpse in the territory.'

“Get me out of this mess!” 2:02 · “Start digging!” 2:11 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 1:58 (passage 1:57–2:44); US record: No renewal found

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