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Abilene Town · Beat 204 · permalink

Bar

1:05:52–1:06:01 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 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 1:05:551:05:55Frame at 1:06:001:06:00

Play from 1:05:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 108 · shots 392–393. 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
  • Sherry (named at t:65:53): 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
Also said
“We're what this country can be, Sherry.” 66:00
Seen
plaid shirt [frame:1], pendant necklace [frame:2], shelves with bottles [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate and persuasive; themes: shared identity, national idealism, personal connection; style notes: medium close-up shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, shallow depth of field focusing on faces

A man and a woman converse in a dimly lit interior space with shelves in the background. The man speaks about shared values and commonality with the woman, whom he addresses as Sherry.

“You're like us, Sherry. A lot like us. You want the same things that we do.” 65:53 · “We got a lot in common.” 65:58 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 1:05:55 (passage 1:05:52–1:06:01); US record: No renewal found

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