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Abilene Town · Beat 109 · permalink

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32:02–32:34 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; 6 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 32:1432:14Frame at 32:3032:30

Play from 32:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 57 · shots 204–205. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • man wearing a cowboy hat and light shirt, standing near a window visible
  • man in dark vest and light shirt, standing near a wall visible
  • woman seated, wearing a light dress and head covering visible
  • man seated, back to camera, wearing dark vest visible
  • man seated, side profile, wearing light shirt visible
  • man standing, partially obscured, wearing dark clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cowboy hat stands near a window while others are seated or standing in a dim room. [frame:1]
  • A group of people, including a woman and several men, are gathered in a room with wooden walls and barred windows. [frame:2]
Also said
“We are peaceable people.” 32:24 · “Because cattlemen hate farmers.” 32:28
Seen
cowboy hat, barred window, wooden walls, chairs
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: conflict between cattlemen and farmers, community tension, land use disputes; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, high contrast lighting, static camera, period costumes

A group of people in a dimly lit interior setting discuss conflict between cattlemen and farmers, with one person explaining the animosity stems from land use. The scene includes a man in a cowboy hat and others seated or standing in what appears to be a public gathering space.

“It's mighty hard luck, Mrs. Can-Wee.” 32:16 · “But why should anybody want to harm us?” 32:21 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 32:14 (passage 32:02–32:34); US record: No renewal found

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