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Kansas Pacific · Beat 251 · permalink

Field

1:06:28–1:06:42 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:06:341:06:34Frame at 1:06:401:06:40

Play from 1:06:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 167 · shots 409–410. 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
  • rider on horse, wearing dark clothing, visible from a distance visible
  • rider on horse, wearing dark clothing, visible from a distance visible
  • man standing on train car, wearing dark clothing, holding equipment visible
  • man standing on train car, wearing dark clothing, near crates visible
  • unspecified person audible
Seen happening
  • Two riders approach on a dirt path between rocks and trees. [frame:1]
  • Men stand on a flatbed train car with crates and equipment. [frame:2]
Seen
horse [frame:1], flatbed train car [frame:2], crates [frame:2], equipment [frame:2], rocks [frame:1], trees [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict, transportation, outdoor action; style notes: black-and-white, wide shot for landscape, medium shot for train car, high contrast lighting

Two riders approach on a dirt path between rocks and trees; a separate shot shows men on a flatbed train car with crates and equipment. A voice shouts 'Fire!' during this sequence.

“Fire!” 66:38 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 1:06:34 (passage 1:06:28–1:06:42); US record: No renewal found

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