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Abilene Town · Beat 119 · permalink

Sheriff's office

37:22–37:47 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 5 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 37:2537:25Frame at 37:3237:32Frame at 37:4137:41

Play from 37:22 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 61 · shots 230–232. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sheriff's office (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a light-colored dress with a dark belt visible
  • man, wearing a dark coat and a wide-brimmed hat, back to camera visible
  • man, wearing a dark coat and a wide-brimmed hat, side profile visible
  • woman, wearing a light-colored dress and a bonnet visible
  • man, wearing a dark coat and a wide-brimmed hat, standing in crowd visible
Seen happening
  • A woman walks through a doorway into a room with patterned wallpaper. [frame:1]
  • A crowd of people stands outside a building with a sign reading 'SHERIFF'. [frame:2]
  • The crowd outside the sheriff's office remains gathered, with several men in hats visible. [frame:3]
Seen
wide-brimmed hat [frame:1], sign reading 'SHERIFF' [frame:2], patterned wallpaper [frame:1]
On screen
SHERIFF
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: western, law enforcement, community gathering; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static camera, period costume

A woman in a wide-brimmed hat and light dress walks through an interior doorway. Outside, a crowd gathers in front of a building marked 'SHERIFF'.

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 37:25 (passage 37:22–37:47); US record: No renewal found

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