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Abilene Town · Beat 265 · permalink

Street

1:23:25–1:23:54 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 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 1:23:301:23:30Frame at 1:23:421:23:42Frame at 1:23:451:23:45Frame at 1:23:531:23:53

Play from 1:23:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 140 · shots 521–526. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:4
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
Period
1800s evidence: t:83:31
People
  • man in a hat and dark shirt, standing upright visible, audible
  • man in a cap, facing p1 visible, audible
  • woman with dark hair, standing beside p2 visible, audible
  • man with light hair and mustache, wearing a vest visible
  • man with dark hair and mustache, wearing a vest visible
Also said
“This here. Sure is.” 83:51
Seen
hat, cap, vest, streetlamp
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: conflict, law enforcement, urban unrest; style notes: black-and-white, low-key lighting, medium shots focusing on group dynamics

A group of men and a woman are gathered on a street at night, discussing a plan to fan out around buildings while another group is destroying saloons. The scene includes a man in a hat speaking to others, and a woman standing among the group.

“Glad you're here, boys. What do you want us to do, Marshal? Fan out.” 83:26 · “around the stores and buildings on that side of the street. Hear that, fellas? Spit out on that side. Over there, boys. On that road. What's Riker's men up to now? Having the time of their lives wiping out the saloons and gambling houses. And you ain't doing nothing about it? Not me. They're doing too good a job.” 83:31 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 1:23:30 (passage 1:23:25–1:23:54); US record: No renewal found

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