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Abilene Town · Beat 141 · permalink

Private office

46:33–47:04 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; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 46:4846:48

Play from 46:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 73 · shots 266–266. 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 dark coat, wide-brimmed hat, and gun belt visible
  • man wearing cowboy hat, bandana, and dark shirt visible
Seen happening
  • One man offers his coat to the other. [frame:1]
Also said
“A little security for my children.” 46:47 · “Better take my coat and...” 47:00
Seen
wide-brimmed hat [frame:1], cowboy hat [frame:1], bandana [frame:1], gun belt [frame:1], metal jug on shelf [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and pragmatic; themes: authority, protection, transition; style notes: medium two-shot, high-contrast lighting, Western costume detail, static framing

Two men in Western attire converse in a dimly lit interior space; one is identified as town marshal. One man offers his coat to the other as they prepare to leave.

“Come on, Jed, let's start the town.” 46:38 · “You're not sheriff, you're town marshal.” 46:43 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 46:48 (passage 46:33–47:04); US record: No renewal found

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