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Kansas Pacific · Beat 187 · permalink

Railroad

53:47–53:50 Registered 1953

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 53:4953:49

Play from 53:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 116 · shots 321–321. 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
Seen happening
  • A steam locomotive is moving along tracks. [frame:1]
Seen
steam locomotive [frame:1], railroad tracks [frame:1], tender with rocks or coal [frame:1], smoke from stack [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, outdoor lighting

A steam locomotive moves along tracks with smoke rising from its stack. The train is carrying a load of rocks or coal in its tender.

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 53:49 (passage 53:47–53:50); US record: No renewal found

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