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Abilene Town · Beat 165 · permalink

Living room

54:17–54:34 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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 54:1854:18Frame at 54:2754:27

Play from 54:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 91 · shots 314–315. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman with styled hair, seated, wearing dark dress or blouse visible
  • man in light shirt, dark tie, and belt, standing visible
Also said
“Why no man who's walked or ridden into this town has ever gotten near you.” 54:28
Seen
decorative plates on wall, ornate chair, door
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, emotionally charged; themes: emotional isolation, romantic tension, gender roles; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, studio lighting, period costume

A woman sits in a decorated room while a man in a shirt and tie stands nearby. The transcript includes dialogue about a dress and metaphorical quills, suggesting emotional distance.

“Hand me the dress on that chair.” 54:18 · “And the polcupine quills you shoot out to keep people away from you.” 54:22 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 54:18 (passage 54:17–54:34); US record: No renewal found

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