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Abilene Town · Beat 136 · permalink

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44:27–45:39 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 45:0345:03

Play from 44:27 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 70 · shots 254–254. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark coat, standing, facing others visible, audible
  • Al (named at t:45:35): boy in hat, seated at table, holding cards visible, audible
  • man with mustache, seated, holding cards visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Three people sit at a table outside a wooden building, holding cards. [frame:1]
Also said
“You and your friend come on up the house. He ain't no friend of mine. He ain't. Show your friends. Do this every day for the exercise. Come on, friend.” 44:43 · “Let's deal again, Al.” 45:35
Seen
wooden table [frame:1], cards [frame:1], glass [frame:1], wooden building with windows [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual and conversational; themes: social interaction, card game, rural setting; style notes: medium shot, black and white, natural lighting, static framing

Two men and a boy sit at a table outside a wooden building, talking and preparing to play cards. One man invites another to come up to the house, while the boy is addressed as 'Al' during the card game discussion.

“Hot today, ain't it?” 44:33 · “Got any drinking water? Yeah, plenty of it in the well.” 44:40 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 45:03 (passage 44:27–45:39); US record: No renewal found

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