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Abilene Town · Beat 114 · permalink

Private office

34:41–35:15 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; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 34:4434:44Frame at 35:0135:01

Play from 34:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 59 · shots 221–222. 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
  • Charlie (named at t:34:46): man in light shirt and dark vest, seated behind desk, middle-aged, thin build visible, audible
  • Dan (named at t:34:46): man in light shirt, seated in chair, middle-aged, medium build, hat on table visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man sits behind a desk and gestures while speaking. [frame:1]
  • Two men sit facing each other in an office, one with a hat on the table. [frame:2]
Also said
“Sent for you, Dan, because I heard you might give up marshalling. Did say something about it.” 34:46 · “I could use a man. Always figured I could land a job with you, Charlie. How soon do you plan to quit? Well, that depends.” 34:46
Seen
desk [frame:1], typewriter [frame:1], hat [frame:2], table [frame:2], chair [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and transactional; themes: employment negotiation, authority, transition; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, static framing, period costume

Two men are seated in an office, one behind a desk and the other in a chair across from him, discussing employment. The man behind the desk mentions sending for the other because he heard he might quit being a marshal.

“Oh!” 34:43 · “Sit down. I sent word to Bravo, but as far as I'm concerned, I want yet younger Brody.” 34:46 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 34:44 (passage 34:41–35:15); US record: No renewal found

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