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Kansas Pacific · Beat 183 · permalink

Field

53:05–53:18 Registered 1953

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 53:0853:08Frame at 53:1453:14Frame at 53:1753:17

Play from 53:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 113 · shots 314–316. 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 in dark cowboy hat and jacket, visible behind rock visible
  • man in lighter cowboy hat and jacket, visible beside p1 visible
  • man in light hat, partially visible inside metal structure visible
Seen happening
  • Two men crouch behind a rock, one holding a rifle. [frame:1]
  • A man is seen inside a metal structure with rivets and pipes. [frame:2]
  • The two men behind the rock remain in position, one looking alert. [frame:3]
Also said
“Get down!” 53:13
Seen
large rock [frame:1], cowboy hats [frame:1], rifle [frame:1], metal structure with rivets and pipes [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, cover and command; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, static framing

Two men in cowboy hats take cover behind a large rock while shouting commands to shoot and get down. A third man is briefly visible inside a metal structure, possibly a train car, during the same sequence.

“Keep shooting. We'll get him.” 53:07 · “Yeah, go nowhere.” 53:09 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 53:08 (passage 53:05–53:18); US record: No renewal found

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