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Abilene Town · Beat 280 · permalink

Street

1:26:23–1:26:39 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:26:271:26:27Frame at 1:26:331:26:33Frame at 1:26:371:26:37

Play from 1:26:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 142 · shots 547–549. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
Period
19th century evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark coat and hat, visible in shadow visible
  • woman in light dress with ruffled collar, visible indoors visible
  • man in vest and hat, standing near railing visible
  • man on horseback, partially visible visible
  • man in dark coat, speaking audible
Seen happening
  • Men gather outside a building at night. [frame:1]
  • Men stand near a railing, one on horseback. [frame:2]
  • A woman in a light dress interacts with a man in a dark coat and hat indoors. [frame:3]
Seen
railing, horse, window, lamp
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and anticipatory; themes: conflict, urban night scene, social gathering; style notes: high-contrast lighting, static framing, period costume

A group of men, some on horseback, are gathered outside a building at night; one man speaks about going into town to get a merchant's door. A woman in a light dress is seen indoors near a window, interacting with a man in a dark coat and hat.

“Come on, men. Let's go into town. Get the merchant's door.” 86:24 · “What am I doing here?” 86:34 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 1:26:27 (passage 1:26:23–1:26:39); US record: No renewal found

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