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Abilene Town · Beat 207 · permalink

Trail

1:07:11–1:07:25 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; 5 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 1:07:161:07:16Frame at 1:07:231:07:23

Play from 1:07:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 110 · shots 396–397. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
trail (road, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man with mustache, wearing hat and dark shirt, seated on horse visible
  • man on horse, partially visible, wearing hat visible
  • man on horse, partially visible, wearing hat visible
  • man on horse, partially visible, wearing hat visible
  • Bob (named at t:67:13): unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • Four men on horseback are visible on a trail. [frame:1]
  • A man with a mustache and hat is shown in close-up on horseback. [frame:2]
Seen
horses [frame:1], hats [frame:1], gun belt [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict over land use, authority and defiance; style notes: black-and-white, medium and close-up shots, natural outdoor lighting

Four men on horseback are shown in a trail setting; one man, with a mustache and hat, is shown in close-up. A voice orders someone named Bob to clear a trail and drive forward, asserting no farmer can block it.

“Bob, wire a hand across the trail as far as you can see. Now hit it. No farmer can block my trail. Drive right toward.” 67:13 · “Come on.” 67:21 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 1:07:16 (passage 1:07:11–1:07:25); US record: No renewal found

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