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Abilene Town · Beat 239 · permalink

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1:15:22–1:15:43 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:15:321:15:32

Play from 1:15:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 128 · shots 473–473. 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
  • indistinct figure in dark clothing, visible only as a silhouette in low light visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A figure is visible moving in a dark interior space. [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and uncertain; themes: waiting, anticipation, uncertainty; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, silhouetted figure, static framing

A person is visible in a dim interior, speaking about men who are expected to arrive. The scene is dark and indistinct, with no clear objects or text visible.

“There. And where's the men?” 75:23 · “When will they be here? Perhaps they can get together. Wait here.” 75:26 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 1:15:32 (passage 1:15:22–1:15:43); US record: No renewal found

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