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1:02:21–1:03:13 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; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:02:241:02:24Frame at 1:02:441:02:44Frame at 1:03:071:03:07

Play from 1:02:21 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 370–372. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a light shirt and dark tie, visible from chest up, indoors visible
  • group of men outdoors wearing hats and period clothing, some with suspenders visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a shirt and tie is visible indoors. [frame:1]
  • A crowd of men in hats is gathered outdoors. [frame:2]
  • A man in a wide-brimmed hat and suspenders stands among others outdoors. [frame:3]
Also said
“And if we have to, to fight.” 62:46 · “We're getting dangerous to the trail herds and they know it.” 63:00
Seen
window, lamp, hats, suspender
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and communal; themes: community solidarity, conflict with outsiders, population growth; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up indoors, wide shot outdoors, natural lighting in exterior shots

A man in a shirt and tie speaks indoors while a crowd of men in hats gathers outdoors; the transcript discusses unity, conflict with trail herds, and population growth in the county. No names are spoken that can be linked to the visible individuals.

“That's right, Jim. We've all got to stick together.” 62:40 · “That's the purpose of this organization.” 62:43 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 1:02:24 (passage 1:02:21–1:03:13); US record: No renewal found

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