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Abilene Town · Beat 273 · permalink

Bar

1:25:37–1:25:50 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:25:401:25:40Frame at 1:25:461:25:46

Play from 1:25:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 141 · shots 538–539. 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, frame:2
People
  • man wearing a wide-brimmed hat, striped shirt, and dark tie, seated at a table visible
  • man wearing a hat and light shirt, standing at a bar visible
  • man wearing a hat, seated at a table with a bottle visible
  • man wearing a hat, seated at a table, partially obscured visible
  • unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a hat sits at a table with a glass in front of him. [frame:1]
  • Several men in hats are visible in a bar setting, one standing at the bar, others seated. [frame:2]
Seen
glass [frame:1], bottle [frame:2], bar counter [frame:2], wooden stairs [frame:1], hats [frame:1, frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: arrest, confrontation, Western genre; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, low-key lighting with strong shadows, period Western costume and set design

A man in a hat sits at a table in a dimly lit interior while another man stands at a bar; a voice declares someone under arrest for murder. No names are spoken, and the setting appears to be a saloon or bar with wooden fixtures and bottles visible.

“I am? Yes. You're under arrest.” 85:40 · “The charge is murder.” 85:44 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 1:25:40 (passage 1:25:37–1:25:50); US record: No renewal found

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