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Abilene Town · Beat 244 · permalink

Bar

1:17:11–1:17:24 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; 4 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 1:17:171:17:17

Play from 1:17:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 131 · shots 483–483. 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 suit, middle-aged, medium build visible
  • man in light shirt and hat, holding a gun, medium build visible
  • man in dark vest and light pants, visible behind p1 visible
  • man partially visible behind p2, wearing dark shirt visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit points at another man holding a gun while others look on. [frame:1]
Also said
“Wait.” 77:17 · “Lights out.” 77:21
Seen
gun, hat, suit
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, threat, suspense; style notes: medium shot, high contrast lighting, black and white, static framing

A man in a suit confronts another man holding a gun in a dimly lit interior; others watch. A voice asks who set the place on fire, and someone says to wait and then orders lights out.

“Who set the place on fire?” 77:12 · “I wouldn't want to do that.” 77:13 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 1:17:17 (passage 1:17:11–1:17:24); US record: No renewal found

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