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Abilene Town · Beat 120 · permalink

Jail

37:47–38:22 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; 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 38:0438:04

Play from 37:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 62 · shots 233–233. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
jail (jail, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a hat and dark coat, visible from side visible
  • Rita (named at t:37:49): woman with light-colored hair, wearing a light dress with dark stripes at the waist visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman embrace in front of barred windows. [frame:1]
Seen
barred windows, man's hat, woman's striped dress
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: melancholic; themes: farewell, embrace, confinement; style notes: static medium shot, high contrast lighting, barred background emphasizes confinement

A man and a woman embrace in a dimly lit interior with barred windows; the woman asks to be held without speaking. The scene is from a 1946 film and includes dialogue where the woman says goodbye and requests silence and embrace.

“Rita. Dan.” 37:49 · “I want to say goodbye. Well. Don't say anything. Just put your arms around me and hold me. Hold me.” 37:53 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 38:04 (passage 37:47–38:22); US record: No renewal found

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