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Abilene Town · Beat 229 · permalink

Bar

1:12:17–1:12:35 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 1:12:231:12:23Frame at 1:12:321:12:32

Play from 1:12:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 124 · shots 457–458. 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, frame:2
People
  • man in light shirt, dark neckerchief, cowboy hat, mid-30s to 40s, medium build visible, audible
  • older man in dark vest, white shirt, bow tie, cowboy hat, stern expression visible
  • man in vest and hat, holding bottle, visible in background visible
Also said
“What's a few homesteaders worth in a fight?” 72:29 · “Not very much, but a thousand of them are worth a lot.” 72:31
Seen
cowboy hats, neckerchiefs, vests, bottle, hanging lamp
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and deliberative; themes: political conflict, community versus individual, frontier justice; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, chiaroscuro lighting, period Western costume

Two men in cowboy hats are shown in close-up and medium shots inside a dimly lit establishment; one speaks about a political fight concerning Kansas and homesteaders. The transcript indicates a discussion about choosing allies and the value of settlers in a broader conflict.

“Boys, I think it over carefully.” 72:19 · “This is a fight for the state of Kansas.” 72:23 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 1:12:23 (passage 1:12:17–1:12:35); US record: No renewal found

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