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Abilene Town · Beat 24 · permalink

Bar

6:57–7:24 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 6:586:58Frame at 7:127:12

Play from 6:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 16 · shots 41–42. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in plaid shirt and hat, seated at bar visible
  • man in dark vest behind bar visible
  • man in hat standing outside, holding a paper visible
  • woman in bonnet and long dress, walking outside visible
  • man in hat walking outside beside woman visible
Seen happening
  • Patrons in a bar react to a disturbance. [frame:1]
  • People walk away on a street outside a building. [frame:2]
Also said
“What would that shoot when they heard you?” 7:16 · “custom at the pride. Got a little too enthusiastic, that's all.” 7:18
Seen
bar counter, hats, paper, fence
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and reactive; themes: public disorder, social custom, reaction to violence; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, interior bar and exterior street framing, naturalistic lighting

A scene inside a bar shows patrons reacting to gunfire, while outside, people on a street appear to be leaving or moving away. The transcript mentions shooting during church services and someone being too enthusiastic.

“Oh, my God.” 6:59 · “Shooting off guns during church services. Other side of the street is getting out of hand again.” 7:00 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 6:58 (passage 6:57–7:24); US record: No renewal found

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