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Abilene Town · Beat 162 · permalink

Theatre

53:02–53:13 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 53:0753:07

Play from 53:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 89 · shots 310–310. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(theatre, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman wearing a dark dress with a light-colored apron or sash, possibly with floral patterns, and a headpiece visible
Seen
columns [frame:1], railing [frame:1], curtains [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, staged; themes: performance, theatrical setting; style notes: black-and-white, theatrical lighting, medium shot, static framing

A woman in a dark dress with a light apron stands on a stage-like set with columns and a railing. No dialogue or action is visible in the single frame provided.

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 53:07 (passage 53:02–53:13); US record: No renewal found

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