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Kansas Pacific · Beat 139 · permalink

Saloon

47:38–47:47 Registered 1953

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote 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 47:4147:41Frame at 47:4547:45

Play from 47:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 82 · shots 244–245. 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, frame:2
People
  • man in cowboy hat and checkered shirt, holding pistol visible
  • man in cowboy hat and vest, seated at table visible
  • man in cowboy hat and light shirt, seated at table visible
Seen happening
  • Man in checkered shirt holds pistol and demands saddlebags be opened. [frame:1]
  • Two men sit at table with cards and glass; one reaches for card. [frame:2]
Seen
pistol, saddlebags, table, cards, glass, chairs
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, gambling, Western genre; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, high-contrast lighting emphasizing faces and props

A man in a cowboy hat holds a pistol while demanding someone open saddlebags. Two other men sit at a table with cards and a glass, one reaching for a card while the other watches.

“Open those saddlebags or I'll put a bullet in them.” 47:41 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 47:41 (passage 47:38–47:47); US record: No renewal found

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