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Abilene Town · Beat 166 · permalink

Private office

54:34–55:04 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 54:4954:49

Play from 54:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 91 · shots 316–316. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, mid-adult, wearing a light shirt and dark vest, standing upright visible, audible
  • woman, mid-adult, wearing a dark dress with a light bodice, turned away from camera visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands facing a woman who is turning away from him. [frame:1]
Also said
“Trying to be tough because you're scared and scared because you're warm and soft.” 54:54 · “I'll lock my door after this.” 55:01
Seen
oil lamps, wall-mounted mirrors, dark patterned wallpaper, dark wooden furniture
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: confrontation, fear, gender roles; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast lighting, period costume, static framing

A man and a woman stand in a dimly lit room with ornate decor; the man speaks to the woman, who turns away. The dialogue suggests tension and accusation, ending with the man agreeing to lock his door.

“What you need is a ride in the hill.” 54:41 · “I don't mix my drinks.” 54:43 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 54:49 (passage 54:34–55:04); US record: No renewal found

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