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Abilene Town · Beat 129 · permalink

Forest

41:36–42:41 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; 3 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 42:0942:09

Play from 41:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 67 · shots 243–243. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
forest (forest, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in Western attire, hat, vest, holding lasso visible, audible
  • unseen, referred to as 'son' audible, mentioned
  • unseen, referred to as 'Dad' audible, mentioned
Seen happening
  • A man in Western attire walks outdoors holding a lasso. [frame:1]
Also said
“I'd rather take in the car on my own head, son.” 42:06 · “Don't you go and make me look for you. You stay right here.” 42:28
Seen
lasso [frame:1], horse [frame:1], trees [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, paternal, unresolved; themes: father-son conflict, stubbornness, protection vs. autonomy; style notes: black-and-white, outdoor natural lighting, medium shot, Western costume

A man in Western attire holding a lasso walks outdoors near trees and a horse; dialogue suggests a father-son conflict over safety and stubbornness. No named characters are spoken in the transcript, and no on-screen text is visible.

“I didn't hurt you, did it, Ann?” 41:37 · “I did it for your own good, son.” 41:41 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 42:09 (passage 41:36–42:41); US record: No renewal found

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