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Kansas Pacific · Beat 221 · permalink

Field

1:00:58–1:01:15 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; 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.

Frame at 1:00:591:00:59Frame at 1:01:031:01:03Frame at 1:01:061:01:06Frame at 1:01:131:01:13

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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Frame from Kansas Pacific (1953) at 1:00:59 (passage 1:00:58–1:01:15); US record: No renewal found

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