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Abilene Town · Beat 209 · permalink

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1:07:47–1:08:14 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:07:491:07:49Frame at 1:07:531:07:53Frame at 1:07:581:07:58Frame at 1:08:111:08:11

Play from 1:07:47 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 407–414. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a wide-brimmed hat and dark coat, seated on the left of the wagon visible
  • woman wearing a bonnet and light-colored dress, seated on the right of the wagon visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man and woman embrace beside a tree [frame:4]
Seen
horse-drawn wagon, tree, horses
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent then tender; themes: travel, interruption, intimacy; style notes: medium shots, wide framing of landscape, black-and-white, natural lighting

Two people ride in a horse-drawn wagon across open terrain; one shouts 'Hold it!' and later they embrace beside a tree. No names or specific location are given in the dialogue or visuals.

“Hold it! Hold it!” 67:51 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 1:07:49 (passage 1:07:47–1:08:14); US record: No renewal found

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