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Abilene Town · Beat 232 · permalink

Bar

1:13:03–1:13:55 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: quote not verbatim. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 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 1:13:291:13:29

Play from 1:13:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 124 · shots 465–465. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in vest and shirt, middle-aged, heavy build visible, audible
  • man in hat and dark coat, standing to right visible
  • man in hat, partially visible behind p1 visible
  • woman in patterned dress, left side, back turned visible
Also said
“I am neutral.” 73:36 · “That's half a million dollars.” 73:46
Seen
wooden bar counter [frame:1], hats worn by men [frame:1], patterned dress [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and calculating; themes: economic stakes, neutrality in conflict, community growth vs. destruction; style notes: medium shot, low-key lighting, period costumes, static framing

A man speaks about financial stakes and neutrality in a conflict involving homesteaders and trail hands, while others listen in a dimly lit interior. The speaker mentions Dan, Charlie, and Riker, and calculates potential business revenue from families settling in town.

“When I sold Henry that wire, I didn't realize it would all come tumbling down on you.” 73:05 · “I know what I'm going to do. I'm straight to Charlie and get word to Riker that Dan don't represent me.” 73:29 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 1:13:29 (passage 1:13:03–1:13:55); US record: No renewal found

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