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Abilene Town · Beat 117 · permalink

Private office

35:59–36:40 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 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 36:1936:19

Play from 35:59 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 60 · shots 227–227. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man standing, wearing a hat and shirt with suspenders visible
  • man sitting, wearing vest and shirt, holding cards visible
  • Annie (named at t:36:22): woman sitting, wearing patterned dress, hair styled up visible
  • Bravo (named at t:36:22): not visible mentioned
Seen happening
  • Three people are gathered around a table; one man stands while two sit. [frame:1]
Seen
table [frame:1], cards [frame:1], hat [frame:1], curtains [frame:1], wallpaper [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: conflict, justice, intervention; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, period costume, static framing

Three people are in a room with patterned wallpaper and curtains; one man stands while two others sit at a table. A transcript line mentions jail and a character named Bravo, suggesting a plot involving law enforcement or conflict.

“Well, you might need a little help. Well, how do you like that? See, I'll have him back here in jail before he knows what time it is.” 36:14 · “Play, Annie, you're holding up justice. Seven to diamonds. Something like funny about this. What's funny? Your enthusiasm. Jet's a killer. What do you think I am, a bumblebee? You've got everything but the sting. Anyway, you won't mind my going along, will you, Bravo? I certainly wouldn't mind. What do you want to meddle into something you don't concern you for? That's what I want to know.” 36:22 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 36:19 (passage 35:59–36:40); US record: No renewal found

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