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Abilene Town · Beat 14 · permalink

Private office

5:10–5:28 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 5:115:11Frame at 5:205:20

Play from 5:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 10 · shots 21–22. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a dark hat, vest, and bow tie, mid-adult, medium build visible
  • woman with blonde hair, wearing a light dress with dark sleeves and a feathered hat, mid-adult, slender visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands facing forward in a room with curtains and a window behind him. [frame:1]
  • A woman dances outdoors in front of a painted desert backdrop. [frame:2]
Also said
“I'm just brimming over with that” 5:11 · “Because I love it out in the way” 5:11
Seen
hat, bow tie, curtains, painted desert backdrop, feathered hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted and theatrical; themes: freedom, romanticized frontier life; style notes: studio-lit interiors, painted backdrops for outdoor scenes, medium close-ups

A man in a hat and vest stands indoors while a woman in a dress dances outdoors against a painted backdrop. The transcript includes a spoken line about freedom and space, delivered during this beat.

“You can do most anything you doggone please” 5:11 · “There's room to catch and there's room to feed” 5:11 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 5:11 (passage 5:10–5:28); US record: No renewal found

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