Field
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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 1:00:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 144 · shots 366–371. 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 dark shirt, visible operating cannon visible
- man in cowboy hat and light shirt, visible standing near cannon visible
- man in dark coat and hat, visible standing near cannon wheel visible
- Seen happening
- A cannon fires, producing smoke and recoil. [frame:2]
- A steam train moves along tracks near the cannon position. [frame:3]
- A large explosion occurs, filling the frame with smoke and debris. [frame:4]
- Seen
- cannon [frame:1], steam train [frame:3], railway tracks [frame:3], explosion smoke [frame:4]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and action-oriented; themes: warfare, transportation, explosion; style notes: black-and-white, wide shots emphasizing scale of cannon and train, high-contrast lighting for dramatic effect
Men operate a cannon near a railway line as a train passes; an explosion follows. No names or dialogue are provided in the transcript for this segment.
“*BOOM*” 61:02 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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