Field
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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 34:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends. Sequence 56 · shots 179–179. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man wearing a cowboy hat and a checkered shirt, mid-adult, medium build visible, audible
- John (named at t:34:26): man wearing a cowboy hat and a solid shirt, mid-adult, medium build visible, audible
- Cal (named at t:34:30): unseen speaker, referred to as 'Cal' audible, mentioned
- Seen happening
- Two men stand outdoors discussing railway construction. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “Sure Cal what is it? Well if I was you I wouldn't go riding around all over this country without side arms at least.” 34:30 · “I looks like this little northern swinging that laid out is going to take more ties and rails and I got figured.” 34:40
- Seen
- cowboy hats [frame:1], checkered shirt [frame:1], solid shirt [frame:1]
- On screen
- te Me sige
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: pragmatic and cautionary; themes: railroad expansion, frontier safety, engineering pragmatism; style notes: medium two-shot, natural outdoor lighting, period Western costume, static framing
Two men in cowboy hats discuss a railway route adjustment in an outdoor setting, with one advising the other to carry side arms. The conversation references terrain, tunnel avoidance, and material costs for the revised path.
“We won't have the tunnel.” 34:10 · “All right. Well, John, I want to give you a little advice.” 34:26 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.
Share
Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.
- Permalink
- always the current cut
- Permalink to this version
- warns if the beats are recut later
- Card image
- https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/kansas_pacific/b101.png
- Figure for a newsletter or page
- Cite