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Abilene Town · Beat 255 · permalink

Private office

1:20:11–1:20:25 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:20:181:20:18

Play from 1:20:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 137 · shots 502–502. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, dark hair, wearing a collared shirt, medium build visible, audible
  • Sherry (named at t:80:13): woman, dark hair with a light bow, wearing a striped dress visible, audible
Seen
door with glass panes
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and intimate; themes: trust, urgency, collaboration; style notes: close two-shot, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film stock, tight framing

A man and a woman stand close in a dim interior, speaking urgently. The woman is named Sherry in the dialogue, and they discuss the arrival of others and a wire sale.

“Sherry! Are they coming? I hope so. But if they don't get here soon, they'll be too late.” 80:13 · “I understand you told them about selling us the wire. And that you believe in what we're trying to do. I believe in you.” 80:13 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 1:20:18 (passage 1:20:11–1:20:25); US record: No renewal found

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