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Abilene Town · Beat 235 · permalink

Bar

1:14:13–1:14:31 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:14:211:14:21Frame at 1:14:301:14:30

Play from 1:14:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 125 · shots 468–469. 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 on horseback, wearing a hat, seen from behind visible
  • man in vest and shirt, standing at bar visible
  • man in hat and shirt, standing near doorway visible
  • man seated at bar, wearing hat visible
Seen happening
  • A man on horseback rides toward a building. [frame:1]
  • Men are inside a bar, one standing at the counter, others seated or standing nearby. [frame:2]
Seen
horse [frame:1], bar counter [frame:2], hanging lamp [frame:2], bottles on bar [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: arrival, anticipation; style notes: high-contrast black and white, static framing, interior lit by single hanging lamp

A man on horseback approaches a building at night. Inside, men stand and sit at a bar under a hanging lamp.

“Oh, my God.” 74:23 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 1:14:21 (passage 1:14:13–1:14:31); US record: No renewal found

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