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Kansas Pacific · Beat 70 · permalink

Field

23:22–23:44 Registered 1953

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 23:2423:24Frame at 23:2923:29Frame at 23:3723:37Frame at 23:4323:43

Play from 23:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 42 · shots 129–132. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:4
People
  • man in cowboy hat, light shirt, dark pants, medium build visible
  • man in cowboy hat, light shirt, dark pants, older, mustache visible
  • man in cowboy hat, dark shirt, dark pants visible
  • multiple men in cowboy hats, working on tracks visible
  • Barbara (named at t:23:42): unspecified audible
Seen happening
  • A man stands beside a wooden structure in a field. [frame:1]
  • Men work on railroad tracks in the distance. [frame:2]
  • A man with a mustache stands among workers near railroad tracks. [frame:3]
  • The man from frame 1 is again shown standing beside the wooden structure. [frame:4]
Seen
wooden structure with wheel, railroad tracks, railroad ties, cowboy hats
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, observational; themes: railroad construction, western setting, labor; style notes: black-and-white, wide shots, natural lighting, static framing

A man in a cowboy hat stands near a wooden structure in a field while other men work on railroad tracks nearby. The name 'Barbara' is spoken during the sequence.

“Barbara.” 23:42 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 23:24 (passage 23:22–23:44); US record: No renewal found

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