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Kansas Pacific · Beat 83 · permalink

Stone steps

25:40–25:51 Registered 1953

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote 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 25:4525:45

Play from 25:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 48 · shots 152–152. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
stone_steps (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a light shirt and a wide-brimmed hat, standing on steps visible
  • Gus (named at t:25:43): man wearing a dark shirt and a cap, holding a stick or tool visible
  • person in dark pants and boots, partially visible behind the two men visible
Seen
stone steps [frame:1], wide-brimmed hat [frame:1], cap [frame:1], stick or tool [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: appreciative; themes: heroism, recognition; style notes: medium shot, outdoor daylight, black-and-white, static framing

Two men stand on stone steps outdoors; one is praised for saving a life. A third person is partially visible behind them.

“That was nice work, Gus. You saved the man's life by thinking fast.” 25:43 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 25:45 (passage 25:40–25:51); US record: No renewal found

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