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Kansas Pacific · Beat 53 · permalink

Street

17:59–18:13 Registered 1953

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 18:0618:06

Play from 17:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 34 · shots 97–97. 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
  • Corbin (named at t:18:12): man in dark coat and hat, mid-adult, average build visible, audible
  • Mr. Bruce (named at t:17:59): man in light shirt and dark jacket, mid-adult, average build visible, audible
  • woman in light blouse, mid-adult, average build visible
  • man in dark coat, mid-adult, average build visible
  • man in hat and coat, mid-adult, average build visible
  • man in hat and coat, mid-adult, average build visible
Seen happening
  • A group of six people stand facing each other outdoors near a stone wall. [frame:1]
Also said
“You local citizens think the town of Rockwood might be better off if I live somewhere else.” 18:07 · “Corbin!” 18:12
Seen
stone wall, hats, coats
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, local hostility, individual versus community; style notes: medium shot, black-and-white, natural outdoor lighting, group framing

A group of men and one woman stand outside a stone building; one man is addressed as 'Corbin' and another as 'Mr. Bruce' in dialogue. The conversation references a fight involving 'Mr. Quantrill' and implies local hostility toward Corbin.

“Just an ordinary fight, Mr. Bruce. I saw Mr. Quantrill get jumped by three men and figured the odds were a little heavy.” 17:59 · “What was it all about?” 18:06 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 18:06 (passage 17:59–18:13); US record: No renewal found

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