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Kansas Pacific · Beat 261 · permalink

Field

1:07:05–1:07:15 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:07:071:07:07Frame at 1:07:111:07:11Frame at 1:07:141:07:14

Play from 1:07:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 172 · shots 420–422. 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
  • man wearing hat and period coat, visible behind rock visible
  • man wearing hat and period coat, visible beside p1 behind rock visible
Seen happening
  • Smoke rises from brush in a field, suggesting recent gunfire. [frame:1]
  • A wagon wheel and crates are visible amid smoke and rocks, indicating a supply or transport point under fire. [frame:2]
  • Two men crouch behind a large rock, one holding a rifle, appearing to take cover. [frame:3]
Seen
rock [frame:1], wagon wheel [frame:2], crates [frame:2], rifle [frame:3], brush [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: combat, survival, military action; style notes: black-and-white, wide and medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, period costume and props

Two men in period clothing are seen behind a rock in a hilly, brushy outdoor setting; smoke and a wagon wheel suggest recent or ongoing gunfire. A voice commands to keep firing and get rifles, indicating a combat situation.

“Keep firing. Get the rifles.” 67:08 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 1:07:07 (passage 1:07:05–1:07:15); US record: No renewal found

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