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Kansas Pacific · Beat 47 · permalink

Town square

16:41–17:15 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 16:4216:42Frame at 16:5416:54Frame at 17:0117:01Frame at 17:1217:12

Play from 16:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 33 · shots 79–87. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
town_square (town square, exterior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man wearing a vest, bow tie, and hat, medium build, middle-aged visible
  • man wearing a coat and tie, younger, medium build visible
  • man in cowboy hat and plaid shirt, older, heavier build visible
  • man in cowboy hat and light shirt, smiling, medium build visible
  • crowd of men and women in period clothing, including hats and dresses visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a vest and bow tie stands outside a building. [frame:1]
  • A man in a coat is struck or pushed by another man in a hat. [frame:2]
  • A crowd gathers on a dusty street near a wooden building. [frame:3]
  • A group of men in cowboy hats, including the man in the vest, walk together smiling. [frame:4]
Also said
“Come on.” 17:09
Seen
wooden building with porch [frame:3], horse-drawn wagon [frame:3], cowboy hats [frame:4], wall-mounted lantern [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense then relieved; themes: confrontation, community gathering, western town life; style notes: black-and-white, medium and wide shots, natural lighting, period costumes

A man in a vest and bow tie stands outside a building; another man in a coat is struck or pushed. A wider shot shows a crowd gathered on a dusty street near a wooden building. The final frame shows a group of men in cowboy hats, including the man in the vest, smiling and walking together.

“I'm.” 16:43 · “Oh!” 17:06 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 16:42 (passage 16:41–17:15); US record: No renewal found

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