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Abilene Town · Beat 195 · permalink

Field

1:03:13–1:03:46 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; 5 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 1:03:301:03:30

Play from 1:03:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 103 · shots 373–373. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in cowboy hat, dark coat, visible from side visible
  • man in cowboy hat, light vest, visible from back visible
  • man in cowboy hat, visible in crowd, face partially obscured visible
  • man in cowboy hat, visible in crowd, facing forward visible
  • man in cowboy hat, visible in crowd, standing behind wagon visible
Also said
“We'll start stringing wire across the trail as soon as the posts are in.” 63:19 · “Come on, let's get at it.” 63:29
Seen
wagon [frame:1], cowboy hats [frame:1], crowd of men [frame:1], hills in background [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: pragmatic and urgent; themes: land rights, community labor, frontier justice; style notes: wide shot, black-and-white, outdoor lighting, group framing

A group of men in cowboy hats gather outdoors near a wagon, discussing fencing work on their land. One man speaks about cutting fence posts and stringing wire across a cattle trail, while another affirms their right to fence.

“Well, I guess we had about enough talk.” 63:13 · “Our first job is cutting those fence posts.” 63:17 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 1:03:30 (passage 1:03:13–1:03:46); US record: No renewal found

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