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Abilene Town · Beat 201 · permalink

Shop

1:04:44–1:05:06 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 1:04:521:04:52Frame at 1:05:031:05:03

Play from 1:04:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 108 · shots 382–383. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
shop (shop, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, mid-30s, medium build, wearing a plaid short-sleeve shirt visible, audible
  • woman, 30s, dark hair styled up, wearing a light blouse with dark trim and a pendant necklace visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man and woman stand facing each other in a shop with stacked goods behind them. [frame:1]
  • The woman looks at the man with a serious expression. [frame:2]
Also said
“Just so I can... Mark off the place where I want to work hard the rest of my life.” 64:57 · “Why is it so important to you?” 65:04
Seen
stacked goods [frame:1], pendant necklace [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but earnest; themes: intention vs. perception, peaceful purpose in a violent context, personal stakes; style notes: medium close-up shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, focused on facial expressions and dialogue

A man and a woman converse in a shop; the man states he wants to buy wire to mark land for work, not for violence. The woman listens intently as he defends his intentions.

“Do I look like a man who likes Killa?” 64:47 · “Wire.” 64:55 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 1:04:52 (passage 1:04:44–1:05:06); US record: No renewal found

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