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Abilene Town · Beat 18 · permalink

Bar

5:44–5:53 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 5:475:47Frame at 5:525:52

Play from 5:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 13 · shots 26–27. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man seated at bar, wearing vest and shirt, mid-adult visible
  • Charlie (named at t:5:46): man standing, wearing hat, vest, and shirt, mid-adult visible, audible
  • Rita (named at t:5:46): woman mentioned in dialogue, not visible mentioned
Seen happening
  • Two men are seated at a bar counter talking. [frame:1]
  • A man in a hat holds a glass and speaks. [frame:2]
Seen
bar counter [frame:1], glass [frame:2], hat [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or confrontational; themes: confrontation, character assessment; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, studio lighting

Two men converse at a bar; one is seated, the other stands wearing a hat. A line mentions a woman named Rita and a man named Charlie.

“Wonder Rita didn't slug you. She wakes too hard as being mean Charlie. Real mean is come to that.” 5:46 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 5:47 (passage 5:44–5:53); US record: No renewal found

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