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Kansas Pacific · Beat 12 · permalink

Train

4:25–4:43 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; 5 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 4:294:29Frame at 4:354:35Frame at 4:414:41

Play from 4:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 10 · shots 18–20. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
train (train, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a hat and light shirt, visible inside train visible
  • man wearing a hat and dark coat, visible behind p1 inside train visible
  • man on horseback, wearing hat, holding pistol visible
  • man on horseback, wearing hat, smiling visible
  • man on horseback, wearing hat, partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • A man inside the train holds a tool near a window frame [frame:1]
  • Three men on horseback are visible outside, one aiming a pistol [frame:2]
  • Two men inside the train, one leaning forward, appear to be working on something [frame:3]
Seen
train car interior [frame:1], horses [frame:2], pistol [frame:2], tool (possibly a torch) [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: escape, confrontation, railroad setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups inside train, wide shot of riders outside, high contrast lighting

Two men are inside a train car, one urging to leave while another holds a tool; outside, three men on horseback are visible, one aiming a pistol. The scene is set during the day, with no specific time or location named.

“Get us out of here, smokestack!” 4:25 · “that will melt the wire.” 4:28 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 4:29 (passage 4:25–4:43); US record: No renewal found

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