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Abilene Town · Beat 185 · permalink

Town square

58:56–58:57 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 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 58:5758:57

Play from 58:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 103 · shots 347–347. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
town_square (town square, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • person on horseback, wearing dark clothing, viewed from side visible
Seen happening
  • A person rides a horse across a town square. [frame:1]
Seen
horse [frame:1], two-story building with gabled roof [frame:1], wooden structure with railing [frame:1], dusty ground [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, observational; themes: western town, movement through space; style notes: wide shot, black and white, natural lighting, static camera

A rider on horseback moves across a dusty town square past a two-story building and a wooden structure. The scene is shot in black and white with no audible dialogue or on-screen text.

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 58:57 (passage 58:56–58:57); US record: No renewal found

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