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1:01:26–1:01:48 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 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 1:01:351:01:35Frame at 1:01:461:01:46

Play from 1:01:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 103 · shots 363–364. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a light-colored blouse with lace or ruffles at the neckline visible, audible
  • man, wearing a dark hat, white shirt, and dark tie visible
Seen happening
  • The woman is visible, facing the man, in a dimly lit room with a lamp behind her. [frame:1]
  • The man is visible, wearing a hat and tie, looking toward the woman. [frame:2]
Also said
“You didn't kill him because you're Marshall.” 61:35 · “You killed him because you wanted to see him lying on the ground dead.” 61:38
Seen
lamp [frame:1], window with panes [frame:2], hat [frame:2], tie [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, accusatory; themes: moral accusation, violence, duality of character; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, tight framing on faces, dramatic shadows

A woman confronts a man in a dimly lit interior, accusing him of enjoying violence and killing for pleasure. The man, wearing a hat and tie, listens as she speaks.

“Fun.” 61:28 · “Now I know what I saw in your eyes when you killed Jet Younger.” 61:31 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 1:01:35 (passage 1:01:26–1:01:48); US record: No renewal found

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