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Kansas Pacific · Beat 254 · permalink

Field

1:06:51–1:06:53 Registered 1953

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 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 1:06:521:06:52

Play from 1:06:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 169 · shots 413–413. 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
  • wearing a hat and period military-style clothing, standing near a cannon visible
  • wearing a hat and period clothing, standing beside p1 visible
Seen happening
  • A cannon fires, producing a large plume of smoke. [frame:1]
Seen
cannon [frame:1], plume of smoke [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: military action, historical reenactment; style notes: black-and-white, wide shot, high contrast lighting emphasizing smoke and figures

A cannon fires, producing a large plume of smoke, while two figures in period attire stand near it on uneven ground. The scene is outdoors and appears to be part of a historical or military setting.

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 1:06:52 (passage 1:06:51–1:06:53); US record: No renewal found

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