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Abilene Town · Beat 143 · permalink

Private office

47:24–47:49 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 47:3347:33Frame at 47:4547:45

Play from 47:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 74 · shots 268–269. 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 with dark hair and coat, standing, holding a rifle visible
  • Jed (named at t:47:44): man with light hair, on hands and knees on floor, wearing dark coat visible
Seen happening
  • Jed is on the floor, another man stands with a rifle [frame:1]
  • The two men face each other in a standoff [frame:2]
Also said
“You'd better shoot.” 47:45 · “I'm not going. You're going.” 47:47
Seen
rifle [frame:2], wooden floor [frame:1], stone wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, refusal, power dynamics; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, high contrast lighting, static framing

Two men face off in a dim interior; one is on the ground, the other stands with a rifle. A voice tells Jed to shoot, but he refuses and tells the other to go.

“Stop!” 47:39 · “All right, Jed.” 47:44 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 47:33 (passage 47:24–47:49); US record: No renewal found

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