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Abilene Town · Beat 116 · permalink

Private office

35:26–35:59 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 35:2935:29Frame at 35:4635:46

Play from 35:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 59 · shots 225–226. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • Dan (named at t:35:27): woman, mid-adult, wearing a striped sailor-style hat and matching top, curly hair visible, audible
  • man, mid-adult, wearing a light-colored vest and shirt, standing at a desk visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The woman is visible in a close-up, wearing a striped hat. [frame:1]
  • The man and woman stand across a desk in an office; a rooster painting is on the wall. [frame:2]
Also said
“Oh, good luck.” 35:41 · “Well, Dan, don't tell me you want an afternoon game. Yeah, I'll just look for Bravo. Hearing over. Well, here. Oh, that day. Yeah, that's all right. Got a warrant for jet right in my coat pocket.” 35:57
Seen
striped sailor-style hat, desk, rooster painting, warrant [t:35:57]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and transactional; themes: power dynamics, ownership, legal authority; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up and two-shot framing, studio lighting, period costume

A woman in a striped hat speaks to a man across a desk in an office; she claims ownership of the establishment and tells him he will work for her. The man responds with uncertainty and mentions looking for someone named Bravo while holding a warrant.

“I told you I was going to take root here. From now on, I own the show in the pride. But you'll be working for me, Dan.” 35:27 · “Now, remember.” 35:37 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 35:29 (passage 35:26–35:59); US record: No renewal found

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