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Kansas Pacific · Beat 66 · permalink

Private office

21:58–22:22 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; 3 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 22:0222:02Frame at 22:1022:10Frame at 22:1222:12Frame at 22:2122:21

Play from 21:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 41 · shots 114–119. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Joe Farley (named at t:21:59): man wearing a cowboy hat, suit jacket, and tie, seated at a desk visible, audible
  • man wearing a dark cowboy hat and fringed shirt, standing among others visible
  • older man wearing a light work shirt, standing with hands on hips visible, audible
Also said
“Mister there's nothing but a few Jack rabbits out on there I want you to be a railroad guard Joe.” 22:16 · “Thought of a policeman.” 22:20
Seen
cowboy hat, desk, bookshelf with books, work shirt with pockets
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious and transactional; themes: work assignment, frontier labor, authority and compliance; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups and medium shots, studio lighting, static framing

A man named Joe Farley is spoken to in an interior setting; he is asked to bring a rifle and serve as a railroad guard. Another man, dressed in a work shirt, stands with hands on hips and speaks about the job.

“Joe Farley.” 21:59 · “All right, be here at 7 tomorrow morning.” 22:01 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 22:02 (passage 21:58–22:22); US record: No renewal found

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