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Abilene Town · Beat 202 · permalink

Shop

1:05:06–1:05:31 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; 2 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 1:05:101:05:10Frame at 1:05:171:05:17Frame at 1:05:261:05:26

Play from 1:05:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 108 · shots 384–386. 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 shirt visible, audible
  • woman, mid-30s, dark hair, wearing a light blouse with dark trim and a pendant necklace visible, audible
Also said
“What's a girl like you got here that you can be proud of?” 65:26 · “We're the only ones that can give you a life worth living.” 65:29
Seen
shelves with bottles [frame:1], pendant necklace [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and introspective; themes: desire for stability, gender roles, material aspiration; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static framing

A man and a woman have a conversation in an interior setting with shelves in the background. The man speaks about wanting land and a peaceful family life, while the woman questions what she has to be proud of.

“because I want what my father didn't have.” 65:06 · “land.” 65:09 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 1:05:10 (passage 1:05:06–1:05:31); US record: No renewal found

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