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Kansas Pacific · Beat 67 · permalink

Bar

22:22–22:38 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 22:2522:25Frame at 22:3022:30Frame at 22:3522:35

Play from 22:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 41 · shots 120–122. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • man in a suit and tie, seated, mid-adult, medium build visible, audible
  • man in cowboy hat and fringed shirt, standing, mid-adult, medium build visible
  • man in cowboy hat, standing, mid-adult, medium build, arms crossed visible
  • man in cowboy hat and vest, standing, mid-adult, medium build visible
  • man in cowboy hat, partially visible behind p4, mid-adult visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit speaks to a group of men in cowboy hats. [frame:1]
  • The man in the suit continues speaking, looking upward. [frame:2]
  • The group of men in cowboy hats listen, some with arms crossed. [frame:3]
Also said
“Yes, sir. Sounds like a good idea to me. Be glad to do it.” 22:25 · “And if any of your friends have good rifles and know how to handle them, why, tell them to see me.” 22:28
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3], suit and tie [frame:2], fringed shirt [frame:1], wooden bar counter [frame:2], bottles on shelf [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense negotiation; themes: recruitment, frontier authority, group dynamics; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static camera

A man in a suit speaks to a group of men in cowboy hats inside a dimly lit room; one man agrees to a proposal and invites others with rifles to see him. The scene shows three distinct shots of the group and the speaker, with no visible outdoor light or clocks.

“Pays the same.” 22:22 · “All right.” 22:24 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 22:25 (passage 22:22–22:38); US record: No renewal found

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