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Kansas Pacific · Beat 199 · permalink

Railroad track in open country

56:06–56:14 Registered 1953

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

Frame at 56:1056:10

Play from 56:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 127 · shots 339–339. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
railroad track in open country (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • men in 19th-century work clothes, hats, some with suspenders, varying ages and builds visible
Seen happening
  • men are working on railroad tracks with tools [frame:1]
Seen
railroad track [frame:1], railroad ties [frame:1], hand tools (shovels, picks) [frame:1], hats [frame:1], mountains in background [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: laborious, focused; themes: manual labor, railroad construction, frontier expansion; style notes: wide shot, black and white, natural lighting, static framing

A group of men work on a railroad track in an open, mountainous landscape. They are using tools and appear to be laying or repairing track under daylight conditions.

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 56:10 (passage 56:06–56:14); US record: No renewal found

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