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Abilene Town · Beat 283 · permalink

Street

1:26:57–1:27:28 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:26:591:26:59Frame at 1:27:041:27:04Frame at 1:27:171:27:17Frame at 1:27:261:27:26

Play from 1:26:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 142 · shots 552–558. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:4
People
  • man in cowboy hat and vest, central figure speaking visible, audible
  • man in plaid shirt and cowboy hat, standing to left of p1 visible
  • man in light shirt and cowboy hat, on horseback in final frame visible
  • group of men in cowboy hats, background visible
Seen happening
  • A man on horseback is shown riding away as others watch. [frame:4]
Also said
“You don't want to die here with it. The Tame are taking over Abilene. And they're tougher than you think. Better ride, boys. Now's our chance. Drive them out of town. Get them, boys. Get back.” 87:13 · “The fight's over.” 87:24
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1], horse [frame:4], vests and shirts [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber and resigned; themes: decline of the frontier, surrender, leadership in defeat; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, low-key lighting, static camera, period Western costumes

A group of men in cowboy hats stand in a dimly lit interior as one speaks about Riker's death and the fall of Abilene, urging others to leave before the Tame take over. The final frame shows a man on horseback being allowed to ride away as the fight ends.

“Riker's dead, and so is your part of Abilene.” 87:00 · “All that's left of it is the trail back. Boys, this is the way a tough street dies. Not with a roar, but with a whine.” 87:03 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 1:26:59 (passage 1:26:57–1:27:28); US record: No renewal found

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