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Abilene Town · Beat 226 · permalink

Shop

1:11:23–1:11:41 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 8 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 1:11:301:11:30Frame at 1:11:391:11:39

Play from 1:11:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 124 · shots 447–448. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
shop (shop, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a dress with a white collar and a necklace, visible in close-up visible
  • man in vest and shirt, standing behind a counter, visible in frame:1 visible
  • man in dark vest, back to camera, visible in frame:1 visible
  • man in hat, seated, visible in frame:1 visible
  • woman in light dress, seated, visible in frame:1 visible
  • man in light shirt, standing, visible in frame:1 visible
  • man in dark shirt, standing, visible in frame:1 visible
  • man in hat, standing in background, visible in frame:1 visible
Seen happening
  • A woman is shown in close-up, looking to her right. [frame:1]
  • The same woman is shown in a tighter close-up, still looking right. [frame:2]
Also said
“What I want to know is who sold them that wire? Not me. I turned them down. What are your wires, Sergeant? What's that?” 71:33 · “I stole that wire.” 71:40
Seen
chandelier [frame:1], wooden counter [frame:1], shelves with bottles [frame:1], woman's necklace [frame:2], woman's white collar [frame:2], man's vest [frame:1], man's hat [frame:1], woman's light dress [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and accusatory; themes: conflict, blame, theft, confrontation; style notes: black-and-white, medium and close-up shots, high-contrast lighting, static framing

A scene in a crowded interior shows a woman speaking after a line about stolen wire. The transcript mentions casualties and property damage, and a character denies involvement in selling wire.

“Seven people killed and about $6,000 in property damaged, I understand.” 71:27 · “This is another Gettysburg.” 71:31 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 1:11:30 (passage 1:11:23–1:11:41); US record: No renewal found

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