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Abilene Town · Beat 128 · permalink

Field

41:19–41:36 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 1 name 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 41:2641:26Frame at 41:3541:35

Play from 41:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 67 · shots 241–242. 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, adult, wearing cowboy hat, light shirt, dark vest, dark pants visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands near a horse and a fallen figure on the ground. [frame:2]
Seen
cowboy hat, vest, horse, fallen figure, rocks
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, western setting; style notes: black and white, medium shot, natural outdoor lighting

A man in a cowboy hat and vest stands outdoors near a horse and a fallen figure. A line of dialogue calls him a 'stubborn creature.'

“You sure are a stubborn creature.” 41:30 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 41:26 (passage 41:19–41:36); US record: No renewal found

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