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Abilene Town · Beat 140 · permalink

Private office

46:13–46:33 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 46:1346:13Frame at 46:1746:17Frame at 46:2246:22Frame at 46:3046:30

Play from 46:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 73 · shots 259–265. 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, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat, dark coat, and neckerchief, seated then standing visible
  • man wearing hat and coat, seated at table in background visible
  • Jet (named at t:46:16): unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cowboy hat sits in a wooden room. [frame:1]
  • Another man is seated at a table in the background. [frame:2]
  • The first man stands up, facing forward. [frame:3]
  • The man remains standing, looking slightly to his right. [frame:4]
Also said
“Just a little of your time about...” 46:21 · “20 years.” 46:23
Seen
cowboy hat, dark coat, wooden table, shelf with items, log walls, window with bars, belt with holster
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: confrontation, past events, Western frontier; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period Western costume and set design

A man in a cowboy hat and dark coat is seated and then stands in a dimly lit wooden interior while another man speaks off-screen. The dialogue references a character named Jet and a 20-year span, and mentions Charlie Fast and Bravo's movements.

“Wouldn't do that, Jet.” 46:16 · “What do you want?” 46:19 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 46:13 (passage 46:13–46:33); US record: No renewal found

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