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1:23:54–1:24:03 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 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 1:23:581:23:58

Play from 1:23:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 140 · shots 527–527. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a hat and light-colored shirt, medium build visible
  • dark figure, indistinct features visible
  • partially visible figure, possibly seated, wearing dark clothing visible
Seen
wooden post [frame:1], hat [frame:1], light-colored shirt [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or suspenseful; themes: confrontation, shadow and light; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, medium shot, static framing

A man in a hat and light shirt stands near a wooden post in a dimly lit interior, with other figures partially visible in shadow. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 1:23:58 (passage 1:23:54–1:24:03); US record: No renewal found

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