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Abilene Town · Beat 188 · permalink

Private office

1:00:00–1:00:14 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote 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 1:00:071:00:07

Play from 1:00:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 103 · shots 355–355. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman in a light-colored dress, visible from the side, standing near a doorway visible
  • man in a light shirt and dark pants, seen from behind, standing near a window visible
  • Jess (named at t:60:06): man in dark clothing, partially visible in doorway visible
Seen
lantern, window with panes, doorway
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: quiet, intimate; themes: farewell, interpersonal moment; style notes: high-contrast black and white, medium shot, static framing, chiaroscuro lighting

A man and a woman are in a dimly lit interior space; the woman says good night to someone named Jess. The scene is shot in black and white with high contrast lighting.

“Good night, Jess.” 60:06 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 1:00:07 (passage 1:00:00–1:00:14); US record: No renewal found

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