Flooded field

1:05:43–1:05:48 Registered 1953

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

1:05:46

Play from 1:05:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 161 · shots 402–402. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place

flooded field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1

Seen happening

A steam locomotive moves through floodwaters. [frame:1]

Seen

steam locomotive [frame:1], floodwaters [frame:1], smoke plume [frame:1], utility pole [frame:1]

Interpretation

Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: transportation, natural disaster; style notes: wide shot, high-contrast black-and-white, dramatic smoke against sky

A steam locomotive moves through floodwaters with smoke rising in the background. No people are visible or audible, and no dialogue is present in this beat.

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 1:05:46 (passage 1:05:43–1:05:48); US record: No renewal found

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Card image: https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/kansas_pacific/b244.png
Figure for a newsletter or page: <figure><a href="https://publicreel.org/moment/kansas_pacific/b244"><img src="https://publicreel.org/atlas-img/kansas_pacific/0402.webp" alt="Frame from Kansas Pacific (1953) at 1:05:46 (passage 1:05:43–1:05:48); US record: No renewal found" width="640"></a><figcaption>Kansas Pacific (1953), 1:05:43–1:05:48. Internet Archive copy kansas_pacific; US record: No renewal found. Via Public Reel.</figcaption></figure>
Cite: Public Reel, "Kansas Pacific (1953), 1:05:43–1:05:48", https://publicreel.org/moment/kansas_pacific/b244, from Internet Archive item kansas_pacific, retrieved 6 September 2026.

Flooded field

Evidence and details

The record

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