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Abilene Town · Beat 130 · permalink

Field

42:41–43:08 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 42:5342:53Frame at 43:0743:07

Play from 42:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 68 · shots 244–245. 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, frame:2
People
  • man lying on ground, wearing dark clothing and boots, hat beside him visible
  • distant figure on hillside, indistinct visible
Seen happening
  • A man lies on the ground, apparently incapacitated. [frame:1]
  • A wide view shows a lone figure on a hillside, framed by tree branches. [frame:2]
Seen
hat, trees, hills
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, aftermath; themes: confrontation, isolation, western setting; style notes: black-and-white, wide landscape shot, low-angle on fallen man, natural lighting

A man lies on the ground in a dusty outdoor setting, with a hat nearby; a wide shot shows a distant figure on a hillside framed by trees. No names or dialogue beyond 'Bravo!' are provided in the transcript.

“Bravo!” 43:04 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 42:53 (passage 42:41–43:08); US record: No renewal found

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