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Abilene Town · Beat 191 · permalink

Private office

1:01:08–1:01:26 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 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 1:01:101:01:10Frame at 1:01:191:01:19

Play from 1:01:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 103 · shots 361–362. 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
  • woman with dark curly hair, wearing a light-colored dress with lace or ruffled collar visible, audible
  • man wearing a light shirt, dark tie, and dark hat; medium build, adult visible, audible
Also said
“Show me guys.” 61:18 · “I wouldn't be any good to you running away. Being afraid would take half the fun out of life for me.” 61:20
Seen
wall-mounted lamp, dark hat, dark tie
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and intimate; themes: personal conflict, moral choice, romantic tension; style notes: low-key lighting, close framing, period costume, black-and-white film stock

A woman speaks to a man in a dimly lit interior, asking him to take her away; he responds that running away would diminish the fun of life for him. The setting appears to be a private room with minimal lighting and period clothing.

“If you care anything about me at all.” 61:13 · “Take me away.” 61:15 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 1:01:10 (passage 1:01:08–1:01:26); US record: No renewal found

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