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Kansas Pacific · Beat 145 · permalink

Bar

48:40–48:57 Registered 1953

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 4 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 48:4848:48

Play from 48:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 82 · shots 263–263. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light-colored suit and hat, standing near stairs visible
  • man in dark coat and hat, standing near p1 visible
  • man in light shirt, leaning over a table visible
  • man seated at table, partially visible visible
Seen
wooden tables [frame:1], wooden chairs [frame:1], staircase [frame:1], hats worn by men [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: labor unrest, accident aftermath; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, low-key lighting, period costume

A man speaks in a dimly lit saloon about men who quit working for the railroad after an accident. The room contains tables, chairs, and a staircase, with several men present.

“I see a lot of men here who quit working for the railroad after the accident we had today.” 48:52 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 48:48 (passage 48:40–48:57); US record: No renewal found

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