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Kansas Pacific · Beat 152 · permalink

Field

51:13–51:22 Registered 1953

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 51:1551:15Frame at 51:1951:19

Play from 51:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 85 · shots 279–280. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing hat and period clothing, visible in frame 2 visible
  • man wearing hat and period clothing, visible in frame 2 visible
  • man wearing hat and period clothing, visible in frame 2 visible
  • unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • Three men carry a large sack along railroad tracks. [frame:2]
Also said
“No time for this one.” 51:17 · “Get out of sight.” 51:18
Seen
railroad tracks [frame:1], large sack [frame:2], large rock [frame:2], hats [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: urgency, manual labor, railroad; style notes: black-and-white, wide shot, natural lighting, outdoor setting

Three men in hats move a large sack along railroad tracks in a rural area. One man speaks, saying 'No time for this one. Get out of sight.'

“I'm sorry.” 51:15 · “I'm sorry.” 51:16 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 51:15 (passage 51:13–51:22); US record: No renewal found

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