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Kansas Pacific · Beat 100 · permalink

Field

33:46–34:10 Registered 1953

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 33:5033:50Frame at 33:5533:55Frame at 34:0334:03

Play from 33:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 55 · shots 176–178. 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, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • man wearing a hat and light shirt, standing at a drafting table visible
  • man wearing a hat and shirt, standing near wooden rails visible
  • man wearing a hat and shirt, standing beside p1 in rocky terrain visible
  • man in hat visible in background near rails visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands at a drafting table beside a tent. [frame:1]
  • A man stands near wooden rails with others in the background. [frame:2]
  • Two men stand together near a drafting table with rocky terrain behind them. [frame:3]
Also said
“at least until we get into the rocky country and even that shouldn't be too bad.” 34:06
Seen
tent, drafting table, wooden rails, hats, rocky terrain
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: practical and focused; themes: frontier work, team coordination, landscape navigation; style notes: black-and-white, outdoor wide shots, natural lighting, period costume

Two men in hats and shirts are outdoors near a tent and wooden rails, discussing their pace and upcoming terrain. One man is seen at a drafting table, then standing with another man in a rocky landscape.

“Bill? John, we're doing fine.” 34:01 · “We ought to be able to keep this pace up for a few more days.” 34:03 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 Kansas Pacific (1953) at 33:50 (passage 33:46–34:10); US record: No renewal found

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