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Abilene Town · Beat 241 · permalink

Theatre

1:16:15–1:16:38 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:16:231:16:23Frame at 1:16:331:16:33Frame at 1:16:361:16:36

Play from 1:16:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 129 · shots 475–477. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
theatre (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, blonde, wearing a short white skirt and dark top, dancing visible
  • man, wearing a cowboy hat and dark shirt, standing with back to camera visible
  • man, wearing a cowboy hat and light shirt, standing near tables visible
  • audience members, mostly men in hats, seated visible
  • unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A woman dances on a stage in front of an audience. [frame:1]
  • A man in a cowboy hat stands watching the dancer. [frame:2]
  • The dancer moves toward the audience as a man in a cowboy hat approaches from the side. [frame:3]
Seen
stage curtain, cowboy hats, tables and chairs, dance costume
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted and theatrical; themes: performance, audience interaction, western attire in social setting; style notes: black-and-white, stage lighting focused on performer, wide shots showing audience and stage, medium shots capturing character entrance

A performer dances on a stage before an audience in a theater; a man in a cowboy hat enters the scene and approaches the stage. A voice speaks lines about the moon and Romeo, followed by a greeting.

“and in the moon it's old. You'll find me out with my Romeo. That's why I love it.” 76:29 · “Howdy!” 76:37 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 1:16:23 (passage 1:16:15–1:16:38); US record: No renewal found

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