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Kansas Pacific · Beat 185 · permalink

Railway track

53:35–53:41 Registered 1953

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 53:3853:38

Play from 53:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 114 · shots 319–319. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
railway track (train, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Seen
steam locomotive [frame:1], coal car [frame:1], passenger cars [frame:1], railway track [frame:1], trees [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: transportation, railroad, industrial; style notes: black-and-white, wide-angle shot, natural lighting, outdoor setting

A steam locomotive pulling a coal car and passenger cars travels along a track through a wooded area. No people are visible in the frame, and no dialogue or on-screen text is present.

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 53:38 (passage 53:35–53:41); US record: No renewal found

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