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Kansas Pacific · Beat 106 · permalink

Railroad construction site

36:08–36:26 Registered 1953

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 36:1336:13Frame at 36:2236:22

Play from 36:08 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 60 · shots 186–187. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
railroad_construction_site (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in cowboy hat, standing on flatcar, wearing dark shirt and vest visible
  • man in cowboy hat, on horseback, wearing dark coat and hat visible
  • man in cowboy hat, plaid shirt, working with tool near horse visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands on a flatcar near a crane at a railroad site. [frame:1]
  • A man on horseback watches another man working with a tool. [frame:2]
Seen
flatcar, crane, railroad tracks, horse, tool (possibly hammer or pick)
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or urgent; themes: railroad construction, departure, Western frontier; style notes: black-and-white, wide shot establishing location, medium shot focusing on character interaction, natural lighting

Two men in cowboy hats are present at a railroad construction site; one stands on a flatcar near a crane, while another on horseback watches as a third man works with a tool. One man says he is going to leave.

“Come on.” 36:21 · “I'm going to go.” 36:22 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 36:13 (passage 36:08–36:26); US record: No renewal found

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