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Abilene Town · Beat 250 · permalink

Interior with view to street

1:18:42–1:19:03 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 1:18:441:18:44Frame at 1:18:551:18:55

Play from 1:18:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 136 · shots 491–492. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
interior with view to street (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
night evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in dark coat and hat, standing indoors visible
  • woman in light dress, standing indoors visible
  • man in vest, arms crossed, standing indoors visible
  • unspecified riders on horseback visible
  • Cap (named at t:79:01): unspecified speaker audible
Seen happening
  • Three people stand inside a dimly lit room. [frame:1]
  • Riders on horseback move along a street at night. [frame:2]
Also said
“Oh” 78:48 · “Hey, Cap, look.” 79:01
Seen
window frame [frame:1], horses [frame:2], street [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and anticipatory; themes: social commentary, community observation, nighttime activity; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static interior shot juxtaposed with moving exterior shot

A group of people stands in a dimly lit interior while a separate scene shows riders on horseback moving outside at night. A voice mentions the Thompson family's income and calls them 'clums,' followed by someone addressing 'Cap.'

“Suppose the Thompson family's only standing...” 78:42 · “$300 a year. They're the clums.” 78:44 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 1:18:44 (passage 1:18:42–1:19:03); US record: No renewal found

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