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Kansas Pacific · Beat 209 · permalink

Railroad tracks

59:05–59:24 Registered 1953

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

Frame at 59:1559:15

Play from 59:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 134 · shots 350–350. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
railroad tracks (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Dad (named at t:59:19): unseen, audible only audible
  • unseen, audible only audible
Seen happening
  • A steam locomotive is visible on railroad tracks. [frame:1]
Seen
steam locomotive, railroad tracks, trees
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: triumphant; themes: achievement, family; style notes: black-and-white, outdoor shot, medium-long shot of train, natural lighting

A steam locomotive is shown on railroad tracks outdoors. Two lines of dialogue express celebration, with one speaker addressing someone as 'Dad'.

“- Oh, Dad, you did it!” 59:19 · “- We sure did!” 59:19 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 59:15 (passage 59:05–59:24); US record: No renewal found

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