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Kansas Pacific · Beat 136 · permalink

Saloon

46:59–47:11 Registered 1953

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 47:0547:05

Play from 46:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 82 · shots 238–238. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
saloon (bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a dark hat and coat, seated at a table visible
  • man wearing a light-colored hat and vest, seated at a table visible
  • man wearing a dark hat, seated at a table with cards and coins visible
  • man wearing a hat and coat, standing near staircase visible
  • man wearing a hat, seated at a table in background visible
Seen
wooden table [frame:1], wooden chairs [frame:1], playing cards [frame:1], coins [frame:1], staircase [frame:1], wall-mounted lamp [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and quiet; themes: western, gambling, social gathering; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, low-key lighting with strong shadows, static composition

A group of men in hats sit at tables in a dimly lit interior space with wooden furniture and a staircase. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in the frames or transcript for this beat.

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 47:05 (passage 46:59–47:11); US record: No renewal found

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