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Kansas Pacific · Beat 270 · permalink

Rocky slope

1:09:02–1:09:24 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; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:09:051:09:05Frame at 1:09:111:09:11Frame at 1:09:171:09:17Frame at 1:09:221:09:22

Play from 1:09:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 176 · shots 455–458. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
rocky slope (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light-colored shirt and dark pants, visible in struggle visible
  • man in dark jacket and pants with a belt, visible in struggle visible
Seen happening
  • Two men are grappling on a rocky outcrop. [frame:1]
  • One man is lifting the other in a chokehold. [frame:2]
  • One man is thrown backward down a steep, rocky slope. [frame:3]
  • The two men continue to grapple on the slope. [frame:4]
Seen
belt with ammunition, rocky terrain, scrub brush
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: physical conflict, struggle for dominance; style notes: black-and-white, medium to close shots, high-contrast lighting on figures against a bright sky

Two men are fighting on a rocky slope. One man is thrown down the incline during the struggle.

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 1:09:05 (passage 1:09:02–1:09:24); US record: No renewal found

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