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Kansas Pacific · Beat 108 · permalink

Railroad

36:51–37:49 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; 3 names 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.

Frame at 36:5536:55Frame at 37:1937:19Frame at 37:3837:38Frame at 37:4737:47

Play from 36:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 60 · shots 193–200. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
railroad (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in cowboy hat, light shirt, dark pants, standing near train visible
  • man in cowboy hat, light shirt, standing by tent visible
  • man in dark cowboy hat, dark shirt, beaded necklace, crouching behind rocks visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands near a freight car on a railroad. [frame:1]
  • A man crouches beside a train car, holding something small. [frame:2]
  • A man stands by a tent with a table, looking off-camera. [frame:3]
  • A man crouches behind rocks, smiling slightly. [frame:4]
Also said
“Bring it on the job, huh?” 37:30
Seen
freight car, train tracks, tent, table with tools, rocks
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, railroad work, Western frontier; style notes: black-and-white, outdoor Western setting, medium to close shots, natural lighting

A man in Western attire is seen near a train and a tent in an outdoor setting. Dialogue includes a demand to let go and a challenge about bringing something on the job.

“What are you doing here?” 37:23 · “Let go of me.” 37:28 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 36:55 (passage 36:51–37:49); US record: No renewal found

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