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Kansas Pacific · Beat 169 · permalink

Field

52:31–52:37 Registered 1953

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 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 52:3452:34

Play from 52:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 99 · shots 300–300. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark clothing, crouching, wearing a hat visible
  • man in dark clothing, crouching, wearing a hat, partially obscured visible
Seen
railroad tracks [frame:1], large rocks [frame:1], brush and trees in background [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: outdoor labor, railroad construction, rural setting; style notes: wide shot, high-contrast black and white, natural lighting, static framing

Two men in dark clothing crouch beside railroad tracks near large rocks in an open, brushy landscape. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 52:34 (passage 52:31–52:37); US record: No renewal found

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