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Kansas Pacific · Beat 242 · permalink

Mountain

1:05:12–1:05:30 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; 3 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 1:05:181:05:18Frame at 1:05:261:05:26

Play from 1:05:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 160 · shots 397–398. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
mountain (mountain, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light shirt and cowboy hat, mid-adult, average build visible, audible
  • man in dark shirt and cowboy hat, mid-adult, lean build visible
  • man in light shirt and wide-brimmed hat, older, thin build visible
Seen happening
  • A man on horseback raises his hand and gestures toward a distant rise. [frame:1]
Also said
“We'll only be able to see the pass from that next rise there. We won't get any rest then if those guns...” 65:23
Seen
horses [frame:1], cowboy hats [frame:2], mountainous terrain [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense anticipation; themes: frontier travel, military reconnaissance, team coordination; style notes: medium shots, natural daylight, outdoor framing with depth from foreground riders to distant mountains

A group of men on horseback pause on a trail in a mountainous area; one man gestures while speaking about observing a pass ahead. The scene is outdoors during daylight, with no visible signage or on-screen text.

“Hold it up!” 65:18 · “Give your horses a breather, men.” 65:20 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 1:05:18 (passage 1:05:12–1:05:30); US record: No renewal found

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