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Kansas Pacific · Beat 49 · permalink

Street

17:17–17:35 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; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 17:2117:21Frame at 17:2617:26Frame at 17:2917:29Frame at 17:3317:33

Play from 17:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 33 · shots 89–92. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark coat and hat, light shirt, tie visible, audible
  • woman in light dress, dark hair, holding her arm visible
  • man in plaid shirt, hat, glasses visible
  • man in light shirt, dark pants, hat visible
  • man in dark shirt, hat, running visible
  • man in light shirt, dark pants, bending over visible
Seen happening
  • A group of people stand together outdoors. [frame:1]
  • A man runs and another man bends over another person on the ground. [frame:2]
  • A man is being held or restrained near a pole. [frame:3]
  • The group of people are standing close together again, looking at each other. [frame:4]
Seen
stone building [frame:1], wooden fence [frame:2], pole [frame:3], hats [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, group dynamics, Western setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, outdoor daylight lighting, Western costume

A group of people in period Western clothing are gathered outdoors near a stone building; a physical altercation occurs while others watch. One man speaks, questioning the situation and another's tools.

“What's going on here. I don't know. Construction engineers right. Don't look like he's using a slide. Now does it.” 17:18 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 17:21 (passage 17:17–17:35); US record: No renewal found

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