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Abilene Town · Beat 169 · permalink

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56:23–56:31 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 1 name 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 56:2756:27

Play from 56:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 91 · shots 322–322. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman wearing a feathered hat and dark dress with light bodice visible
Seen happening
  • A woman in a feathered hat is visible in a dimly lit interior. [frame:1]
Seen
feathered hat [frame:1], dark dress with light bodice [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral to formal; themes: social gathering, costume; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, studio lighting, period costume

A woman in a feathered hat and dark dress is visible in a dimly lit interior, possibly a social gathering. No names, time of day, or specific events are established from the frame or transcript.

“There's a very simple little thing.” 56:27 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 56:27 (passage 56:23–56:31); US record: No renewal found

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