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Abilene Town · Beat 240 · permalink

Bar

1:15:43–1:16:15 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; 2 names 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 1:15:591:15:59

Play from 1:15:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 128 · shots 474–474. 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
  • Jake (named at t:75:59): man in light shirt, seen from back, wearing hat visible, audible
  • Marshal (named at t:75:57): man in dark shirt, seen from back, wearing hat visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand facing each other in a dim interior with a sign reading 'BEERS 25¢' on the wall. [frame:1]
Also said
“Evening, Jake.” 75:59 · “I think it will be, Henry.” 76:10
Seen
sign [frame:1]
On screen
BEERS 25¢
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and somber; themes: confrontation, finality, community tension; style notes: low-key lighting, medium shot from behind, dark interior with minimal visible detail

Two men speak in a dimly lit interior, one addressing the other as 'Marshal' and 'Jake,' discussing a final confrontation. A sign reading 'BEERS 25¢' is visible on a wall.

“stay here Jeff my people are mad Dan everybody loved old man Hannaberry” 75:47 · “Evening, Marshal.” 75:57 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 1:15:59 (passage 1:15:43–1:16:15); US record: No renewal found

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