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Abilene Town · Beat 20 · permalink

Bar

6:01–6:39 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 6:056:05Frame at 6:186:18Frame at 6:286:28Frame at 6:366:36

Play from 6:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 13 · shots 31–37. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a sheriff's badge, bow tie, vest, and hat visible, audible
  • man in vest and shirt, behind bar, appears to be bartender visible, audible
  • man in vest and shirt, grabbed by throat in frame 4 visible
Seen happening
  • The sheriff is shown in close-up, listening or speaking. [frame:2]
  • A man is grabbed by the throat by another man. [frame:4]
Seen
sheriff's badge [frame:1], bar counter [frame:1], bottles on shelf [frame:1], bow tie [frame:2], hat [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: authority, negotiation, confrontation; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s Westerns

A man in a sheriff's badge speaks with a bartender in a saloon; another man is grabbed by the throat. The dialogue suggests a negotiation over a person named Rita and a reference to a private matter.

“Guess he got past my boys without being seen. Getting to be a habit what. I'm thinking of closing me up are you. I wouldn't want to.” 6:01 · “wouldn't let you know saloon no trail her no trail herds and the merchants starved to death. Why is right. And what do you want because if it's Rita maybe I can fix it up for you. He found this is private. Just put that on the bill. Anything” 6:11 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 6:05 (passage 6:01–6:39); US record: No renewal found

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