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Kansas Pacific · Beat 218 · permalink

Field

1:00:26–1:00:41 Registered 1953

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 4 names 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 1:00:331:00:33

Play from 1:00:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 142 · shots 361–361. 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 cowboy hat and period Western clothing, standing near cannon visible
  • man in cowboy hat and period Western clothing, standing near cannon visible
  • man in cowboy hat and period Western clothing, standing near cannon visible
  • man in cowboy hat and period Western clothing, standing near cannon visible
Seen happening
  • Men stand around a cannon in a field. [frame:1]
Seen
cannon [frame:1], cowboy hats [frame:1], period Western clothing [frame:1], brush and rocks [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: Western, military preparation, group coordination; style notes: black-and-white, outdoor wide shot, natural lighting, period costume

A group of men in period Western attire are gathered around a cannon in an outdoor, brushy setting. One man gives an order to 'on your toes,' suggesting preparation for action.

“All right boys, on your toes.” 60:27 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 1:00:33 (passage 1:00:26–1:00:41); US record: No renewal found

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