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Kansas Pacific · Beat 233 · permalink

Field

1:01:55–1:02:05 Registered 1953

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:01:581:01:58Frame at 1:02:021:02:02

Play from 1:01:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 152 · shots 384–385. 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 wearing light shirt and wide-brimmed hat, seated on horse visible, audible
  • man wearing dark shirt and wide-brimmed hat, seated on horse visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men on horseback are seen in a field with brush and hills. [frame:1]
  • The two men face each other on horseback, appearing to converse. [frame:2]
Also said
“No, sir. I figured they covered them up so we couldn't trail them.” 62:02
Seen
horses [frame:1], wide-brimmed hats [frame:1], brush and hills [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspicious and cautious; themes: pursuit, deception, frontier setting; style notes: medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, static framing focused on dialogue

Two men on horseback discuss whether tracks were visible, one stating they were likely covered to prevent trailing. The setting is an outdoor, hilly, brushy area with no buildings in sight.

“Well, there's a place, all right.” 61:58 · “Did you see any tracks when you came up?” 62:00 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 1:01:58 (passage 1:01:55–1:02:05); US record: No renewal found

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