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Abilene Town · Beat 102 · permalink

Private office

29:30–29:44 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 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 29:3729:37

Play from 29:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 53 · shots 194–194. 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 in striped shirt, visible from side visible
  • woman with light hair, wearing dark dress with necklace visible
  • woman with dark hair, wearing dark dress and hat visible
  • man in vest, visible from side visible
Seen happening
  • Four people sit around a table playing cards. [frame:1]
Also said
“Eight of spades.” 29:35 · “Nine of spades. Ten of spades. Jack. Queen. King of spades. Play.” 29:38
Seen
card deck [frame:1], round table [frame:1], patterned wallpaper [frame:1], framed pictures on wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: card game, social interaction, gambling; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, static framing, low-key lighting

Four people are seated around a table playing cards in a dimly lit room with patterned wallpaper. The transcript includes card calls and a pass, indicating a card game in progress.

“Ah!” 29:30 · “Seven of three.” 29:33 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 29:37 (passage 29:30–29:44); US record: No renewal found

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