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Abilene Town · Beat 127 · permalink

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40:50–41:19 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 41:0441:04

Play from 40:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 67 · shots 240–240. 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
People
  • man in cowboy hat, crouching, dark clothing visible
  • man in cowboy hat, standing, dark clothing, holding reins visible
Seen happening
  • One man crouches while another stands beside a horse. [frame:1]
Also said
“Now, Dan, I'm in charge of this party, and I say we go the other way.” 41:10 · “Think I'll take a ride toward the lion's shack.” 41:15
Seen
horse [frame:1], cowboy hats [frame:1], reins [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: authority, conflict, journey; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, natural outdoor lighting, static framing

Two men in cowboy hats are outdoors near a horse; one crouches while the other stands. They discuss direction, with one asserting authority and another planning to ride toward a 'lion's shack'.

“Well, I figure we'd better be on our way. Which way? Which way?” 41:00 · “I think we'll turn back towards town, look up them deputies first thing. What about the line shack?” 41:03 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 41:04 (passage 40:50–41:19); US record: No renewal found

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