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Kansas Pacific · Beat 117 · permalink

Dusty outdoor work site

38:52–39:08 Registered 1953

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; 8 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.

Frame at 39:0039:00

Play from 38:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 68 · shots 210–210. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
dusty outdoor work site (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light shirt and dark vest, seen from back, wearing wide-brimmed hat visible
  • man in suspenders and dark shirt, facing group, wearing hat visible
  • man in light shirt and dark vest, standing in group, wearing hat visible
  • man in light shirt and dark vest, standing in group, wearing hat visible
  • man in light shirt and dark vest, standing in group, wearing hat visible
  • man in light shirt and dark vest, standing in group, wearing hat visible
  • man in light shirt and dark vest, standing in group, wearing hat visible
  • man in light shirt and dark vest, standing in group, wearing hat visible
Seen happening
  • A group of men in hats and work clothes stand in a circle outdoors. [frame:1]
Also said
“They pay good wages round here.” 38:58 · “I need to but I need to keep breathing more.” 39:01
Seen
wide-brimmed hats [frame:1], work shirts and vests [frame:1], suspender pants [frame:1], dusty ground [frame:1], wooden planks or rails [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and resigned; themes: labor, survival, group tension; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, group framing, natural outdoor lighting

A group of men in hats and work clothes stand outdoors in a dusty area; one man speaks about staying for wages and needing to breathe. No named individuals or indoor settings are shown or mentioned.

“Me too!” 38:54 · “Well, I'm staying.” 38:56 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 39:00 (passage 38:52–39:08); US record: No renewal found

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