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Abilene Town · Beat 208 · permalink

Field

1:07:25–1:07:47 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:07:271:07:27Frame at 1:07:341:07:34Frame at 1:07:401:07:40Frame at 1:07:471:07:47

Play from 1:07:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 111 · shots 398–406. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a wide-brimmed hat, dark shirt, and neckerchief, mustached, on horseback visible
Seen happening
  • A large cloud of dust or smoke rises from a field behind a fence. [frame:1]
  • The dust or smoke billows upward, obscuring the background. [frame:2]
  • A man on horseback looks toward the disturbance. [frame:3]
  • Cattle are seen moving through the dust in the field. [frame:4]
Seen
horse [frame:3], fence [frame:1], cattle [frame:4], dust or smoke [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and observational; themes: rural life, nature's force, human observation; style notes: black-and-white, medium to long shots, natural lighting, emphasis on environmental scale and movement

A man on horseback observes a large cloud of dust or smoke rising from a field where cattle are moving. The scene is outdoors in a rural setting with trees and a fence visible.

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 1:07:27 (passage 1:07:25–1:07:47); US record: No renewal found

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