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Abilene Town · Beat 231 · permalink

Shop

1:13:00–1:13:03 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 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 1:13:011:13:01

Play from 1:13:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 124 · shots 464–464. 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
  • man wearing a dark hat, vest, and shirt, standing and facing others visible
  • man wearing a fedora and dark jacket, seen from behind visible
  • man in plaid shirt, partially visible on left visible
  • man in vest and white shirt, standing to right visible
Seen
table with cloth or goods [frame:1], hats (cowboy and fedora) [frame:1], vests and shirts [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or transactional; themes: western, commerce, confrontation; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, high contrast lighting, static framing

A group of men in hats and vests stand around a table in a dimly lit interior space. One man faces the others while holding an object, and another man in a fedora is seen from behind.

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 1:13:01 (passage 1:13:00–1:13:03); US record: No renewal found

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