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Abilene Town · Beat 22 · permalink

Bar

6:45–6:55 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 6:506:50

Play from 6:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 39–39. 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
  • man wearing cowboy hat, vest, and light shirt, holding a gun visible
  • man seated at table, wearing patterned shirt and hat visible
  • woman seated at table, wearing dark dress and hat visible
  • man standing behind bar, wearing vest and tie visible
  • man standing near bar, wearing dark coat and hat visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cowboy hat holds a gun while standing in a saloon. [frame:1]
  • Others in the saloon watch the man with the gun. [frame:1]
Seen
gun [frame:1], cowboy hat [frame:1], bar counter [frame:1], wooden chairs [frame:1], tables [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, gender roles, Western saloon setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, high contrast lighting, Western genre framing

A man in a cowboy hat stands holding a gun in a crowded saloon while others watch; a line is spoken about honorary women. No named characters appear.

“Only honorary women can get away with that, mister.” 6:51 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 6:50 (passage 6:45–6:55); US record: No renewal found

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