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Abilene Town · Beat 186 · permalink

Town square

58:57–59:23 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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 58:5958:59Frame at 59:1359:13

Play from 58:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 103 · shots 348–349. 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
Time of day
day evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark clothing, walking toward building visible
  • man in light shirt, seen from behind, entering dark room visible
Seen happening
  • A man walks toward a large building. [frame:1]
  • A man enters a dark interior. [frame:2]
Seen
large two-story building with porch [frame:1], horse [frame:1], wooden fence [frame:1], wall-mounted lantern [frame:2], window with light [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber; themes: regret, memory, solitude; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, wide shot outdoors, tight interior shot with chiaroscuro lighting

A man walks toward a large building in daylight; another man is seen from behind entering a dark interior at night. Two lines of dialogue are spoken, one apologizing and the other referring to someone talking about 'you' and 'me'.

“I'm sorry.” 58:57 · “She kept talking about you a lot at first. About me. Just rambling.” 59:21 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 58:59 (passage 58:57–59:23); US record: No renewal found

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