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Kansas Pacific · Beat 5 · permalink

Railway track

3:15–3:44 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 3:183:18Frame at 3:273:27Frame at 3:383:38

Play from 3:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 5 · shots 6–8. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
railway track (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing light shirt, dark trousers, and a hat, walking toward train visible
  • man in dark jacket and hat, standing near tracks visible
  • man in dark jacket and hat, facing p2, standing near tracks visible
Seen happening
  • A steam locomotive is shown moving along a railway track through a wooded area. [frame:1]
  • A man in a hat walks alongside the train near the tracks. [frame:2]
  • Two men stand facing each other near the tracks while a third man walks between them. [frame:3]
Seen
steam locomotive, railway tracks, trees and brush, hats, jackets
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: conflict, railroad setting, western genre; style notes: black-and-white, outdoor natural lighting, medium to long shots, period costume

A steam locomotive is shown on a railway track in a wooded area. Three men in period clothing are visible near the train, with one walking toward it and two others standing nearby.

“Oh dirty miserable back back if I could just get my hands on one of them. There. Yeah. Oh.” 3:20 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 3:18 (passage 3:15–3:44); US record: No renewal found

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