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Kansas Pacific · Beat 61 · permalink

Railroad office

20:42–21:05 Registered 1953

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 20:5420:54

Play from 20:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 39 · shots 108–108. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
railroad office (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Seen
KANSAS PACIFIC R.R. sign, chalkboard with 'CONSTRUCTION MEN WANTED APPLY WITHIN SUPT.', wooden building exterior
On screen
[{'text': 'KANSAS PACIFIC R.R.', 'frame': 1}, {'text': 'CONSTRUCTION MEN WANTED APPLY WITHIN SUPT.', 'frame': 1}]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: railroad expansion, labor recruitment; style notes: static exterior shot, black and white, clear signage

A wooden building exterior with a 'KANSAS PACIFIC R.R.' sign and a chalkboard advertising 'CONSTRUCTION MEN WANTED'. No people are visible in the frame.

“I'm” 20:42 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 20:54 (passage 20:42–21:05); US record: No renewal found

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