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Abilene Town · Beat 33 · permalink

Bar

9:32–9:52 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 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 9:379:37Frame at 9:479:47

Play from 9:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 64–65. 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
People
  • man with mustache, wearing dark vest and shirt, standing center visible, audible
  • man with mustache, wearing dark shirt and hat, standing left visible
  • man wearing plaid shirt and hat, standing right visible
  • Riker (named at t:9:45): man in dark vest, facing crowd, speaking visible, audible
  • crowd of men in hats, seated and standing visible
Seen happening
  • A crowd of men in hats is visible in a saloon. [frame:2]
Also said
“Bring it up, boys. Show's over.” 9:48
Seen
hats [frame:1], wooden bar [frame:1], signs on wall [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: confrontation, threat, authority, crowd control; style notes: medium close-up on speaker, wide shot of crowd; high-contrast black-and-white lighting

A man addresses a crowd in a saloon, declaring intent to return and dismantle the town; another man, identified as Riker, replies he will remain. The scene ends with a command to disperse.

“You've bought chips, Marshal. A couple of weeks, we'll be back. You'll be here. Because there'll be no guns checked, and we'll tear this crooked, cheating town apart and spread the pieces from here to the Texas border.” 9:32 · “I'll be here, Riker.” 9:45 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 9:37 (passage 9:32–9:52); US record: No renewal found

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