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Kansas Pacific · Beat 30 · permalink

Train

13:27–13:43 Registered 1953

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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 13:2813:28Frame at 13:3613:36

Play from 13:27 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 19 · shots 54–55. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
train (train, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light shirt and dark pants, standing on train car visible
  • man in cap and jacket, reaching toward train side visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands on the side of a train car. [frame:1]
  • A man in a cap reaches toward the side of a train. [frame:2]
Also said
“Take it away.” 13:41
Seen
train car [frame:1], man's cap [frame:2], train window [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: work orders, railroad operations; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast black and white, static camera

A man stands on a train car while another man in a cap reaches toward the train's side. Spoken lines indicate an order to resume work and move the train.

“You heard him, Gus.” 13:31 · “Fire up. We're going back to work.” 13:32 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 13:28 (passage 13:27–13:43); US record: No renewal found

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