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Kansas Pacific · Beat 77 · permalink

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24:31–24:34 Registered 1953

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 24:3324:33

Play from 24:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 141–141. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
steps (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing dark hat and coat, kneeling visible
  • person lying down, wearing light pants visible
Seen happening
  • A man kneels beside a person lying on the ground. [frame:1]
Seen
hat [frame:1], coat [frame:1], pants [frame:1], steps or ground surface [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: concern, injury, outdoor confrontation; style notes: close framing, high contrast lighting, black-and-white film

A man in dark clothing kneels beside another person lying on the ground. The scene appears to be outdoors on steps or a rough surface, with no visible text or spoken dialogue.

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 24:33 (passage 24:31–24:34); US record: No renewal found

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