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Kansas Pacific · Beat 140 · permalink

Private office

47:47–47:49 Registered 1953

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 47:4847:48

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

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 82 · shots 246–246. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat, suit, and bow tie, holding cigar visible
Seen
cowboy hat [frame:1], suit [frame:1], cigar [frame:1], staircase [frame:1], patterned wallpaper [frame:1], wall lamp [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: Western, confrontation, masculinity; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, high contrast lighting, Western genre styling

A man in a cowboy hat and suit stands indoors holding a cigar. The setting includes a patterned wall and a staircase, suggesting an interior space from a 1950s Western film.

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 47:48 (passage 47:47–47:49); US record: No renewal found

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