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Abilene Town · Beat 31 · permalink

Bar

9:11–9:27 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; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 9:199:19

Play from 9:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 21 · shots 62–62. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a vest and hat, seen from behind visible
  • man in dark suit, facing p1 visible
  • group of men in hats and period clothing, standing around visible
  • George (named at t:9:20): unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a vest stands facing a group of men in a bar. [frame:1]
Also said
“Hit the bar, boys. Everything's on the house.” 9:24
Seen
hats [frame:1], vest [frame:1], bar counter (implied by context) [t:9:24]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense anticipation; themes: social gathering, authority, leisure; style notes: medium shot, high contrast lighting, period costumes, crowded framing

A man in a vest and hat stands with his back to the camera, facing a group of men in a crowded interior space. A voice tells someone named George to get going, asks where the music is, and announces that drinks are free.

“Get going, George.” 9:20 · “Where's the music?” 9:23 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 9:19 (passage 9:11–9:27); US record: No renewal found

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