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Kansas Pacific · Beat 202 · permalink

Jail

56:22–56:54 Registered 1953

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 56:3656:36Frame at 56:5256:52

Play from 56:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 130 · shots 342–343. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
jail (jail, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, middle-aged, wearing shirt and vest, with a belt and holster visible
  • silhouetted figure, indistinct features visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands by a door holding a long object. [frame:1]
  • The man raises his hands while another figure is silhouetted behind him. [frame:2]
Also said
“Set it over on the gas.” 56:43 · “Get him up.” 56:47
Seen
wooden door [frame:1], long object (possibly a rifle or baton) [frame:1], chair [frame:1], belt and holster [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, authority, imprisonment; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, medium shots, static framing

A man in a shirt and vest stands by a wooden door, holding a long object; in the next frame, he faces forward with hands raised while another figure is silhouetted behind him. The transcript includes commands like 'Prisoner, stop her' and 'Get him up,' suggesting a confrontation or arrest.

“Who is it?” 56:32 · “Prisoner, stop her.” 56:33 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 56:36 (passage 56:22–56:54); US record: No renewal found

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