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Abilene Town · Beat 271 · permalink

Bar

1:24:55–1:25:26 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes 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 1:25:111:25:11

Play from 1:24:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 141 · shots 534–534. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in white shirt and hat, standing visible
  • man in hat, seated, arms crossed visible
  • man in hat, seen from behind at bar visible
  • Riker (named at t:85:22): unspecified, speaking audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a white shirt and hat stands at a bar. [frame:1]
  • A man in a hat sits with arms crossed. [frame:1]
  • A man is seen from behind at the bar. [frame:1]
Seen
bar counter [frame:1], hats [frame:1], hanging light fixture [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, leisure as defiance; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast lighting, static framing

A man in a white shirt and hat stands at a bar while another man in a hat sits nearby; a third man is visible from behind at the bar. A line of dialogue addresses someone named Riker.

“Had enough fun, Riker?” 85:22 · “When I have, I'll find more somewhere else.” 85:22 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 1:25:11 (passage 1:24:55–1:25:26); US record: No renewal found

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