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Abilene Town · Beat 151 · permalink

Street

50:02–50:11 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 50:0750:07

Play from 50:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 80 · shots 287–287. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing hat and coat, on horseback visible
  • man wearing hat, standing on foot visible
  • man wearing hat, on horseback visible
  • man wearing hat, on foot, facing away visible
Seen
horse [frame:1], hotel sign [frame:1], Western-style buildings [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: Western town life, horseback presence; style notes: wide shot, black-and-white, natural daylight lighting, Western genre framing

A street scene in a Western town with people on horseback and on foot near a hotel. No dialogue or on-screen text is visible in the frame.

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 50:07 (passage 50:02–50:11); US record: No renewal found

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