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Abilene Town · Beat 152 · permalink

Street

50:11–50:33 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 6 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 50:1550:15Frame at 50:2050:20Frame at 50:2450:24Frame at 50:3150:31

Play from 50:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 81 · shots 288–291. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man with light hair, wearing dark shirt and vest, standing with hands clasped visible
  • Trimble (named at t:50:12): man with mustache, wearing vest with star badge, likely sheriff visible, audible
  • man in dark hat and coat, back to camera visible
  • woman with dark curly hair, wearing low-cut dress with ruffles visible
  • man in vest and hat, partially visible visible
  • Dan (named at t:50:29): man with light hair, wearing dark coat and scarf visible
Seen happening
  • Sheriff Trimble stands among townspeople on a street. [frame:1]
  • A woman in a low-cut dress smiles at a man in a dark coat. [frame:4]
Also said
“Oh, Dan, I'm so terribly glad you're back. So am I.” 50:29
Seen
General Store sign [frame:1], Hotel sign [frame:1], Sheriff's star badge [frame:3], Woman's low-cut dress with ruffles [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: triumphant and relieved; themes: law enforcement, community celebration, personal reunion; style notes: medium shots, black-and-white, outdoor daylight, crowd framing

A crowd cheers Sheriff Trimble after he apprehends someone; a woman expresses relief at Dan's return. The setting is a town street with a general store and hotel visible.

“Bravo, Trimble. Did you catch him? Yes, sir. Please cheers to Sheriff Trimble. Hooray! Hooray! Hooray! Thanks, folks. Thank you.” 50:12 · “I'm just doing my duty. - Get me in sight, you big four-flusher. You put up quite a fight, you did.” 50:22 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 50:15 (passage 50:11–50:33); US record: No renewal found

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