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Kansas Pacific · Beat 72 · permalink

Field

24:17–24:26 Registered 1953

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 24:2224:22

Play from 24:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 42 · shots 136–136. 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
People
  • man wearing dark clothing and a hat, carrying a beam visible
  • man wearing a hat, seated on a horse visible
Seen happening
  • A man carries a wooden beam across a field. [frame:1]
  • A man sits on a horse in the background. [frame:1]
Seen
wooden beam [frame:1], horse [frame:1], covered wagon [frame:1], stacked logs [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: labor, transportation, frontier; style notes: wide shot, black and white, natural lighting, outdoor setting

A man carries a wooden beam while another sits on a horse nearby; a covered wagon is visible in the background. The scene appears to be outdoors in a dusty or snowy open area with no clear indoor structure.

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 24:22 (passage 24:17–24:26); US record: No renewal found

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