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Abilene Town · Beat 203 · permalink

Bar

1:05:31–1:05:52 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 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:05:331:05:33Frame at 1:05:381:05:38Frame at 1:05:481:05:48Frame at 1:05:511:05:51

Play from 1:05:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 108 · shots 387–391. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(bar, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • woman with dark hair styled up, wearing a light blouse with dark trim and a pendant necklace visible, audible
  • man with light hair, wearing a dark-and-light plaid shirt visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The woman is visible, facing the man, mid-sentence. [frame:1]
  • The man is visible, listening or responding to the woman. [frame:2]
  • The man is visible, looking down or away, appearing pensive. [frame:3]
  • The woman is visible again, facing the man, continuing the conversation. [frame:4]
Also said
“I know you. I've been watching you ever since I first came to you.” 65:41 · “Well, yes, I have a little now and then.” 65:46
Seen
bottles on shelves [frame:2], necklace with pendant [frame:1], plaid shirt [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: surveillance, conflict, moral dilemma; style notes: close two-shots, high-contrast lighting, static camera, period costume

A man and a woman have a tense conversation in a dimly lit interior with shelves of bottles behind them. The dialogue suggests a conflict about waiting versus acting, with the woman accusing the man of watching her.

“You know that too, don't you?” 65:31 · “We're strong enough now. For more bloodshed?” 65:35 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 1:05:33 (passage 1:05:31–1:05:52); US record: No renewal found

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