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Abilene Town · Beat 23 · permalink

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6:55–6:57 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 6:566:56

Play from 6:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 15 · shots 40–40. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Woman wearing a striped corset-style dress with black feathered shoulders and a feathered headpiece, light-colored hair styled up. visible
Seen
feathered costume [frame:1], painted mountain backdrop [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: theatrical; style notes: studio lighting, static medium shot, painted backdrop suggests stage or film set

A woman in a feathered costume stands against a painted backdrop of mountains. No dialogue or action is visible in the single frame.

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 6:56 (passage 6:55–6:57); US record: No renewal found

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