Desert
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 52:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 149 · shots 460–463. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- (desert, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
- People
- wearing a wide-brimmed hat and dark clothing, riding a horse visible
- Seen happening
- A person on horseback is shown in profile against brush. [frame:1]
- The rider is seen from behind, guiding the horse through a shallow river. [frame:2]
- The river water is shown flowing over rocks. [frame:3]
- The rider is shown from a distance, moving along a rocky path with mountains in the background. [frame:4]
- Seen
- horse [frame:1, frame:2, frame:4], wide-brimmed hat [frame:1, frame:4], rocky riverbed [frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], brush and desert vegetation [frame:1, frame:4], mountains [frame:4]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solitary, expansive; themes: journey, isolation, nature; style notes: black-and-white, wide shots emphasizing landscape, natural lighting
A person on horseback crosses a rocky riverbed in a desert landscape. The rider is seen from multiple angles, including a rear view and a wide shot showing distant mountains.
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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