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Abilene Town · Beat 254 · permalink

Bar

1:19:41–1:20:11 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 4 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 1:19:451:19:45Frame at 1:19:531:19:53Frame at 1:20:041:20:04

Play from 1:19:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 136 · shots 499–501. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man in hat and dark coat, visible in frame:1 and frame:2 visible
  • man in vest and shirt, visible in frame:1 visible
  • man in hat, visible in frame:2 visible
  • man speaking, audible in transcript audible
Seen happening
  • Three people stand in a dim interior, one man in a vest and another in a hat. [frame:1]
  • A group of men in hats gather in a dark space. [frame:2]
  • An empty bar with tables and chairs is shown. [frame:3]
Seen
hat [frame:1], vest [frame:1], tables and chairs [frame:3], bar counter [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and anticipatory; themes: arrival, preparation, group movement; style notes: low-key lighting, medium and wide shots, period costumes suggest Western genre

A group of men in hats and period clothing are seen in a dimly lit interior, possibly a saloon, with one man speaking about others arriving and closing up. The scene includes a wide shot of an empty room with tables and a bar.

“won't take them long to get lick it up and start on this side of the street sure glad to see you let him close you up did you all right boys let's go” 79:41 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 1:19:45 (passage 1:19:41–1:20:11); US record: No renewal found

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