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Abilene Town · Beat 272 · permalink

Private office

1:25:26–1:25:37 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; 4 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 1:25:281:25:28Frame at 1:25:321:25:32Frame at 1:25:361:25:36

Play from 1:25:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 141 · shots 535–537. 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:2
People
  • Riker (named at t:85:34): man in sheriff's uniform, light shirt, dark neckerchief, badge on chest, wearing a hat visible, audible
  • older man, seated, wearing a patterned shirt and hat, hands clasped visible, audible
  • man in dark hat and coat, standing in background visible
  • man in hat, partially visible in background visible
Also said
“You're not taking them anywhere, Riker. You're coming with me.” 85:34
Seen
sheriff's badge [frame:1], neckerchief [frame:1], wooden chair [frame:2], glass decanter [frame:2], stairs [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: authority, confrontation, defiance; style notes: medium close-up shots, high-contrast lighting, static framing emphasizing confrontation

A man in a sheriff's uniform confronts another man seated indoors; the sheriff orders him to come along, while the seated man asserts he will take his boys wherever he wants. The confrontation occurs in a dimly lit interior space with other men visible in the background.

“Tell your boys if they try to cross the street, they'll find armed men waiting for them.” 85:27 · “I'll take my boys anywhere I want to go.” 85:31 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 1:25:28 (passage 1:25:26–1:25:37); US record: No renewal found

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