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Abilene Town · Beat 172 · permalink

Bar

57:55–58:08 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; 3 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 57:5657:56Frame at 57:5957:59Frame at 58:0358:03Frame at 58:0758:07

Play from 57:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 93 · shots 326–329. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man with dark mustache, dark suit, medium build, middle-aged visible, audible
  • man with balding head, light shirt with bow tie, medium build, middle-aged visible, audible
  • background patrons, indistinct, some wearing hats visible
Also said
“Has anyone notified Dan Mitchell? Dan Mitchell? You're the county sheriff!” 58:04
Seen
wooden bar counter, bow tie, hats on background patrons
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: law enforcement, escape, local authority; style notes: close-ups and medium shots under low-key lighting emphasize dialogue and reaction; black-and-white film stock with high contrast

A man with a mustache and another man in a light shirt are shown in close-up and medium shots inside a dimly lit interior, discussing an escape. The transcript reveals that someone named Jet escaped by shooting two men and is still in town, prompting a question about notifying Dan Mitchell, who is identified as the county sheriff.

“Did you say Jet escaped? Somebody smuggled him a gun and he shot his way off. Killed two men.” 57:55 · “Took to the hills again, Eddie. No, he's still in town.” 58:01 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 57:56 (passage 57:55–58:08); US record: No renewal found

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