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Kansas Pacific · Beat 247 · permalink

Field

1:06:05–1:06:09 Registered 1953

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:06:071:06:07

Play from 1:06:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 164 · shots 405–405. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing hat and period clothing, standing among rocks visible
  • man wearing hat, seated or crouched among rocks visible
  • man wearing hat, standing with rifle visible
  • man wearing hat, partially obscured among rocks visible
Seen
rocks [frame:1], hats [frame:1], rifles [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: military, outdoor conflict; style notes: black-and-white, wide shot, natural lighting, period costume

A group of men in hats and period clothing are positioned among rocks outdoors. One man gives the order to commence firing, as heard in the transcript.

“Commence firing.” 66:06 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 1:06:07 (passage 1:06:05–1:06:09); US record: No renewal found

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