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Abilene Town · Beat 125 · permalink

Field

39:09–40:04 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 39:3739:37

Play from 39:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 66 · shots 238–238. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
dawn evidence: t:39:19
People
  • man, mid-adult, wearing dark long-sleeved shirt and pants, seated on ground visible, audible
  • man, mid-adult, wearing vest and light shirt, seated on ground, leaning back visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men are seated on the ground in a field with hills and trees behind them. [frame:1]
Also said
“Had three deputies. Pulled out on us last night.” 39:31 · “You and me better get out of here too.” 39:50
Seen
clothing, ground, trees and hills
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: weary and resigned; themes: abandonment, dawn as transition, small group dynamics under pressure; style notes: wide shot, natural lighting, black-and-white, static framing, low-angle view of seated figures against landscape

Two men are seated outdoors in a hilly, wooded landscape at dawn; one speaks of deputies who left at 3 a.m. and suggests they should leave too. No names are spoken, and no objects beyond clothing and terrain are visible.

“Sun's up.” 39:19 · “Use a little help around here. You got three deputies. One more you want.” 39:26 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 39:37 (passage 39:09–40:04); US record: No renewal found

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