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Abilene Town · Beat 113 · permalink

Shop

33:41–34:41 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 34:1134:11

Play from 33:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 58 · shots 220–220. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
shop (shop, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a plaid shirt, medium build visible, audible
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a light blouse with ruffles, medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand facing each other in a shop, engaged in a tense conversation. [frame:1]
Also said
“i don't suppose it would make any difference if i asked you not to go” 34:06 · “I thought you'd be in. How'd you figure that one? Younger and fair add up. What? Two to one against you.” 34:23
Seen
wide-brimmed hat [frame:1], plaid shirt [frame:1], ruffled blouse [frame:1], shelves with jars and boxes [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: conflict, moral duty, personal risk; style notes: medium close-up, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static framing emphasizing dialogue

A man and a woman face each other in an interior setting; the transcript reveals a conflict over Jet Young and homesteaders. The man is told he is unlikely to succeed against Young, with odds given as two to one against.

“Two boxes of 45, Sherry. They found out who it was. Jet Young.” 33:42 · “town it's a county matter why do you have to get mixed up in it dan somebody in town sent jet young to burn out those homesteaders somebody in town ought to do something about it” 33:55 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 34:11 (passage 33:41–34:41); US record: No renewal found

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