Public Reel

Kansas Pacific · Beat 52 · permalink

Town square

17:44–17:59 Registered 1953

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 17:4517:45Frame at 17:5317:53

Play from 17:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 34 · shots 95–96. 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:1
People
  • Bill Quantrill (named at t:17:46): man in suit, standing on wooden platform visible
  • John (named at t:17:46): man in suit, facing p1, walking toward him visible
  • Barbara (named at t:17:46): woman in light blouse and dark skirt, standing in group visible
  • man in suit and bow tie, standing in group visible
  • man in hat and coat, standing in group visible
  • man in hat, seated on left visible
Also said
“Well, how are you? How do you do, sir?” 17:55 · “What's this all about?” 17:58
Seen
wooden platform, barrels, hats, suitcases
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and tense; themes: introduction, social protocol, uncertainty; style notes: medium shots, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting

Two men greet each other by name in an outdoor setting with others present; one man addresses a woman named Barbara. A group stands together as one man asks what the situation is about.

“Thanks. I'm Bill Quantrill. You're welcome. My name's John. Hello, Barbara. Nice to see you. Mr. Bruce and Miss Barbara Bruce.” 17:46 · “- Mr. Nelson, you know,” 17:54 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.

Share

Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.

Frame from Kansas Pacific (1953) at 17:45 (passage 17:44–17:59); US record: No renewal found

Permalink
always the current cut
Permalink to this version
warns if the beats are recut later
Card image
https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/kansas_pacific/b52.png
Figure for a newsletter or page
Cite