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Abilene Town · Beat 110 · permalink

Courtroom

32:34–32:58 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 32:3632:36Frame at 32:4232:42Frame at 32:4632:46Frame at 32:5432:54

Play from 32:34 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 57 · shots 206–211. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
courtroom (courtroom, interior) evidence: frame:4
People
  • man in light shirt and dark tie, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, standing visible
  • man in dark plaid shirt, standing, facing forward visible
  • older man with mustache, wearing vest with star badge, seated then standing visible, audible
  • group of men seated in foreground, backs to camera visible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand facing forward in a room. [frame:1]
  • A man with a mustache and star badge speaks. [frame:3]
  • A man in a star badge stands and addresses a seated group. [frame:4]
Also said
“Mr. Your investigation is getting out of control.” 32:52 · “I want you all to be quiet until I finish asking questions to the witnesses.” 32:55
Seen
sheriff's star badge, wooden door with bars, wooden chairs, wall-mounted lantern
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: land rights, authority vs. settlers, conflict resolution; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static camera, high-contrast lighting

Two men stand in a room while a man in a sheriff's vest addresses a seated group. A transcript indicates a dispute over land rights and an order for silence during questioning.

“There's only one thing left for us to do if we want to stay here.” 32:35 · “It's government land, the cattlemen don't own it.” 32:43 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 32:36 (passage 32:34–32:58); US record: No renewal found

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