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Abilene Town · Beat 251 · permalink

Saloon exterior

1:19:03–1:19:26 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:19:081:19:08Frame at 1:19:141:19:14Frame at 1:19:171:19:17Frame at 1:19:221:19:22

Play from 1:19:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 136 · shots 493–496. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
saloon exterior (bar, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
Period
1800s evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in hat and striped shirt, visible in frame 1 and 4 visible
  • man in hat, standing with arms crossed, visible in frame 1 visible
  • man in hat, seated indoors, visible in frame 3 visible
  • group of men in hats, visible in frame 2 and 4 visible
Seen happening
  • A man gestures toward others outside a saloon. [frame:1]
  • A man in a hat speaks to a group. [frame:2]
  • A man sits indoors, possibly at a bar. [frame:3]
  • A man in a hat addresses a group outside the saloon. [frame:4]
Also said
“You got a pretty strong outfit.” 79:17 · “Anybody want to get the trail dust out of their throats?” 79:22
Seen
SALOON sign, hats, ropes or lassos, bar interior
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but conciliatory; themes: law enforcement, community tension, western frontier; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, medium shots, period costumes, saloon signage visible

A group of men in hats confront each other outside a saloon at night; one man gestures while speaking about a new law closing saloons. Another man apologizes and offers to buy drinks.

“What's the idea of the saloons being closed? New law went into effect tonight.” 79:08 · “Do you think you can stop us?” 79:13 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 1:19:08 (passage 1:19:03–1:19:26); US record: No renewal found

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