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Abilene Town · Beat 224 · permalink

Bar

1:10:05–1:11:02 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 1:10:301:10:30Frame at 1:10:561:10:56Frame at 1:10:591:10:59Frame at 1:11:021:11:02

Play from 1:10:05 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 123 · shots 440–443. 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 in a light shirt and hat, wearing a badge, standing visible
  • man in a patterned shirt, seated, leaning forward visible
  • Charlie (named at t:70:53): man in a suit and patterned tie, seated, looking up visible, audible
Also said
“First thing Ryker will come in for, find out who sold the wire. That's not all he'll be coming in for.” 70:27 · “I'm in the saloon business. You were. I'm giving you an hour to close up.” 70:57
Seen
badge [frame:3], hat [frame:1, frame:3], wooden booth [frame:2, frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: conflict over land use, threat of violence, authority versus business; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static camera

Three men are in a dimly lit interior, likely a saloon, discussing fences placed across a cattle trail and the threat of someone named Ryker. One man, wearing a badge, gives an ultimatum to another who claims he is only in the saloon business.

“Hanaberry is dead.” 70:08 · “You put pentons across the cattle? Yes.” 70:21 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 1:10:30 (passage 1:10:05–1:11:02); US record: No renewal found

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