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Abilene Town · Beat 107 · permalink

Camp

31:10–31:54 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 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 31:2131:21Frame at 31:4331:43

Play from 31:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 55 · shots 201–202. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
camp (camp, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • figure in dark clothing, possibly wearing a hat, seated or crouched in darkness visible
  • indistinct figure behind draped fabric, partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • A person is seen crouched near a small fire in darkness. [frame:1]
  • Another figure is visible behind draped fabric near the fire. [frame:2]
Seen
small fire [frame:1, frame:2], draped fabric or tarp [frame:2], hat or head covering [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, somber; themes: isolation, nighttime vulnerability; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, tight framing on figures in darkness

A person is visible in darkness near a small fire, with another figure and draped fabric nearby. Two lines of dialogue are spoken: 'Oh, my God.' and 'Oh, yeah.'

“Oh, my God.” 31:13 · “Oh, yeah.” 31:43 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 Abilene Town (1946) at 31:21 (passage 31:10–31:54); US record: No renewal found

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