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Kansas Pacific · Beat 201 · permalink

Field

56:18–56:22 Registered 1953

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 56:2056:20

Play from 56:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 129 · shots 341–341. 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 hat and work clothes, bending over rails visible
  • group of men in hats and work clothes, standing near tracks visible
Seen happening
  • A man works on railroad tracks with a tool. [frame:1]
  • Several men stand near the railroad tracks. [frame:1]
Seen
railroad tracks [frame:1], tool (possibly a sledgehammer) [frame:1], mountains in background [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: laborious; themes: railroad construction, manual labor; style notes: wide shot, black and white, natural lighting, outdoor setting

A group of men work on laying railroad tracks in an open field with mountains in the background. One man uses a tool on the rails while others stand nearby.

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 56:20 (passage 56:18–56:22); US record: No renewal found

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