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Abilene Town · Beat 230 · permalink

Bar

1:12:35–1:13:00 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 1:12:381:12:38Frame at 1:12:461:12:46Frame at 1:12:531:12:53Frame at 1:12:571:12:57

Play from 1:12:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 124 · shots 459–463. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man wearing a light shirt and dark neckerchief, medium build, 30s-40s, wearing a wide-brimmed hat visible, audible
  • man wearing a dark vest over a white shirt, bow tie, older, heavier set, holding a glass visible, audible
  • man in background wearing a hat and vest, partially obscured visible
Also said
“There were people killed this afternoon.” 72:55 · “Makes my position pretty clear, doesn't it?” 72:58
Seen
glass [frame:2], lamp [frame:2], hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict, community threat, moral stance; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, static framing, high contrast lighting typical of 1940s Westerns

Two men discuss the threat posed by Henry Dreiser's organized farmers and the recent violence, with one man stating his position is clear after people were killed. The scene takes place indoors, likely in a saloon or office, with three men visible across the frames.

“Henry Dreiser has a hundred men.” 72:35 · “Over a thousand. Over a thousand.” 72:46 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 1:12:38 (passage 1:12:35–1:13:00); US record: No renewal found

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