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Abilene Town · Beat 173 · permalink

Street

58:08–58:33 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; 4 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 58:1058:10Frame at 58:1658:16Frame at 58:2658:26Frame at 58:3158:31

Play from 58:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 93 · shots 330–334. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man with mustache, dark coat, light shirt, indoors visible, audible
  • woman with dark hair, white apron over dark dress, standing on porch visible
  • man in vest and light shirt, standing in doorway visible
  • person in dark coat and hat, near window, holding object visible
Seen happening
  • A person is seen near a window holding an object. [frame:4]
Also said
“Better get off the street, folks. Hurry. Come on. Hurry.” 58:14 · “There he is!” 58:21
Seen
apron [frame:2], doorway [frame:3], window with lattice [frame:4], hat [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict, pursuit, authority; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, high contrast lighting, period costumes

A man in a dark coat speaks indoors while others react; a woman in an apron stands on a porch as people move outside, and a man in a vest appears in a doorway. A person with a hat and coat is seen near a window, holding an object.

“That's just it. It's out of my jurisdiction.” 58:09 · “He was headed for the stables, but Dan cut them off.” 58:11 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 58:10 (passage 58:08–58:33); US record: No renewal found

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