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Abilene Town · Beat 19 · permalink

Bar

5:53–6:01 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 5:545:54Frame at 5:575:57Frame at 6:006:00

Play from 5:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 13 · shots 28–30. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man wearing glasses, dark vest, light shirt, and a medallion; middle-aged, thin build visible
  • man in dark vest, white shirt, bow tie, and wide-brimmed hat; standing at bar visible
  • man in light shirt; only arm and hand visible visible
  • man in dark vest and hat, seated at bar visible
  • man in light shirt and dark vest, seated at bar visible
Seen happening
  • A man with glasses stares at another man holding a pistol. [frame:1]
  • A man in a hat stands at a bar counter while other patrons sit behind him. [frame:2]
  • A man's hand reaches into a drawer and grasps a revolver. [frame:3]
Seen
pistol, revolver, bar counter, wooden drawer, medallion, bow tie, wide-brimmed hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, Western genre, tension in a public space; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups and wide shots, high-contrast lighting, period Western costume

Two men face each other in a dimly lit bar; one holds a pistol. A third man's hand reaches for a revolver in a drawer. The setting is an interior space with wooden fixtures and patrons in the background.

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 5:54 (passage 5:53–6:01); US record: No renewal found

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