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Abilene Town · Beat 190 · permalink

Private office

1:00:33–1:01:08 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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 1:00:371:00:37Frame at 1:00:451:00:45Frame at 1:00:531:00:53Frame at 1:01:021:01:02

Play from 1:00:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 103 · shots 357–360. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, mid-adult, wearing white shirt and dark necktie, dark hat visible
  • woman, mid-adult, dark hair, wearing light-colored dress with visible neckline visible, audible
Seen
window with light, wall-mounted lamp
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and intimate; themes: fear, domestic tension, impending violence; style notes: close-up shots, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film stock, static camera

A man and a woman are shown in alternating close-ups inside a dimly lit room; the woman speaks of fear and terror. No names are given in the dialogue, and no objects or text are clearly visible beyond the interior setting.

“Afraid for myself and for you.” 60:56 · “You know how you terrify me. Every day I wonder if this is the day I'll see you lying in the street like...” 60:58 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 1:00:37 (passage 1:00:33–1:01:08); US record: No renewal found

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