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Abilene Town · Beat 170 · permalink

Living room

56:31–56:54 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; 3 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 56:4356:43

Play from 56:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 92 · shots 323–323. 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, middle-aged, wearing formal dress with fringes, bow tie, and large hat visible
  • man, older, seated, wearing dark suit and bow tie visible
  • woman, seated, wearing dark dress and hat visible
Seen happening
  • A woman stands at a podium while two others sit behind her. [frame:1]
Also said
“It gives me great pleasure to introduce our guest of honor, Sheriff Bravo Tremble.” 56:43 · “I'm going to go.” 56:49
Seen
podium [frame:1], large hat [frame:1], bow tie [frame:1], potted plants [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, staged; themes: ceremony, introduction, social hierarchy; style notes: static medium shot, studio lighting, period costume, symmetrical framing

A woman in formal attire stands at a podium in a decorated room while two others sit behind her; a transcript line introduces 'Sheriff Bravo Tremble' as guest of honor. No visible action occurs beyond the static pose, and no names are attached to individuals based on appearance alone.

“All you gotta do is land your fingers and I'll do the rest.” 56:32 · “As president of the lady's aide,” 56:41 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 56:43 (passage 56:31–56:54); US record: No renewal found

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