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Abilene Town · Beat 256 · permalink

Private office

1:20:25–1:21:21 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 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 1:20:531:20:53

Play from 1:20:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 138 · shots 503–503. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a hat and light shirt, embracing a woman visible
  • woman in light dress, being embraced visible
  • Dan (named at t:80:52): man in dark shirt, standing to the right visible, audible
  • man partially visible behind p1, face obscured visible
Seen happening
  • A man embraces a woman while another man stands nearby watching. [frame:1]
Also said
“Come on, Henry. I'll explain it to you.” 81:14
Seen
hat [frame:1], light dress [frame:1], dark shirt [frame:1], wall lamp [frame:1], window with patterned glass [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and emotionally charged; themes: romantic rivalry, emotional confrontation, protective possessiveness; style notes: tight framing on three figures, high contrast lighting, static shot emphasizing dialogue

Three people are in a dimly lit interior space; one man embraces a woman while another man stands nearby. Dialogue suggests a tense emotional moment involving pride, a threat to take the woman away, and an offer to explain.

“Oh, Dan. Sherry, I'm proud of you. I'm proud of you, Dan. And Henry.” 80:52 · “Me too. It's getting pretty rough down there, man. Can't you stop it? She's a wonderful girl, Henry, and you'd better get her out of here before I change my mind and take her away from you. Take her away? You mean you... Exactly.” 81:00 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 1:20:53 (passage 1:20:25–1:21:21); US record: No renewal found

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