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Abilene Town · Beat 167 · permalink

Private office

55:04–55:43 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 55:2155:21Frame at 55:4155:41

Play from 55:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 91 · shots 317–318. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, mid-30s, wearing a feathered hat and dark dress with fur trim visible, audible
  • man, mid-40s, wearing a collared shirt and dark tie visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man looks directly at the camera with a slight smile. [frame:2]
Also said
“People seem to think I'm playing hard to get.” 55:34 · “I must confess that what they say is true.” 55:37
Seen
feathered hat, dark tie, wooden door frame, draped curtain
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but controlled; themes: testing character, social perception, romantic tension; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static framing

A woman and a man face each other in an interior setting; the woman speaks about being perceived as playing hard to get, and the man responds with a knowing look. The scene includes dialogue about testing character and admitting truth.

“Better use up some of that before it's foil.” 55:10 · “I knew you'd do that. I let you stay to find out if you were like every other man who ever tried to get in here. Then you found out something, too.” 55:15 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 55:21 (passage 55:04–55:43); US record: No renewal found

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