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Abilene Town · Beat 100 · permalink

Private office

28:38–29:15 Registered 1946

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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 28:5728:57

Play from 28:38 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 52 · shots 192–192. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, mid-30s, dark hair, wearing vest and tie visible, audible
  • Rita (named at t:29:03): woman, 30s, elaborate feathered hat and dress, standing visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman named Rita stands and speaks to a seated man in a decorated room. [frame:1]
Also said
“And I'm never going to move.” 29:07 · “And don't ask so many questions!” 29:11
Seen
feathered hat [frame:1], wallpaper with floral pattern [frame:1], framed painting [frame:1], lamp with round shade [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and personal; themes: conflict, identity, place, resistance to change; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast lighting, period costume, interior set with ornate decor

A man and a woman are in a decorated interior; the woman speaks about staying in Abilene and her life there. The transcript includes dialogue about work, marshals, and the town's future.

“Why doesn't he go to work for Charlie Fair where there's a future?” 28:43 · “This town is never going to close.” 29:05 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 Abilene Town (1946) at 28:57 (passage 28:38–29:15); US record: No renewal found

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