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Abilene Town · Beat 13 · permalink

Theatre

5:00–5:10 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 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 5:055:05

Play from 5:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 10 · shots 20–20. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(theatre, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, mid-20s to 30s, wearing a frilly white dress with dark puffed sleeves and a feathered hairpiece visible
Seen happening
  • A woman dances with one arm extended. [frame:1]
Seen
feathered hairpiece [frame:1], frilly white dress with dark puffed sleeves [frame:1], pillars [frame:1], ropes hanging from ceiling [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: performative; themes: performance, theatricality; style notes: medium shot, black and white, theatrical lighting with strong contrast, static camera

A woman in a frilly dress and feathered hair dances in a dimly lit interior space with pillars and ropes visible. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 5:05 (passage 5:00–5:10); US record: No renewal found

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