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Kansas Pacific · Beat 161 · permalink

Railroad

52:01–52:13 Registered 1953

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 52:0352:03Frame at 52:0852:08Frame at 52:1252:12

Play from 52:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 93 · shots 290–292. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
railroad (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing hat and jacket, standing near tracks visible
  • man wearing hat and jacket, standing near tracks visible
  • man wearing cap and jacket, seated in locomotive cab visible
Seen happening
  • A steam locomotive approaches on railroad tracks. [frame:1]
  • Two men stand near large rocks beside the tracks. [frame:2]
  • A man is visible in the cab of the locomotive. [frame:3]
Seen
steam locomotive [frame:1], railroad tracks [frame:1], large rocks [frame:2], locomotive cab [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: railroad, confrontation, journey; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, static framing

Two men stand near railroad tracks as a steam locomotive approaches; one man is visible in the engine cab. A voice says "Come on" and then "Amen."

“Come on.” 52:05 · “Amen.” 52:11 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 52:03 (passage 52:01–52:13); US record: No renewal found

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