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Kansas Pacific · Beat 173 · permalink

Train

52:46–52:47 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; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 52:4652:46

Play from 52:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 103 · shots 304–304. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
train (train, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a hat and light-colored shirt, holding a pistol, standing on ground visible
  • man wearing a cap and dark shirt, climbing onto train visible
Seen happening
  • A man climbs onto a train while another man stands below holding a pistol. [frame:1]
Seen
pistol [frame:1], train [frame:1], hat [frame:1], cap [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, train travel, western; style notes: black and white, high contrast lighting, medium shot framing, dramatic shadows

Two men are seen near a train; one climbs onto the train while the other stands below holding a pistol. The scene is in black and white and appears to be set outdoors at night or in low light.

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 52:46 (passage 52:46–52:47); US record: No renewal found

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