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Abilene Town · Beat 34 · permalink

Jail

9:52–10:37 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 9:549:54Frame at 10:1610:16

Play from 9:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 66–67. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
jail (jail, interior) evidence: t:9:54
People
  • woman, wearing a feathered hat and striped dress, standing indoors visible
  • Dan (named at t:10:02): man, wearing a dark coat and patterned shirt, standing outdoors visible, audible
  • man, wearing a vest and cowboy hat, standing next to a horse visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman stands with arms outstretched indoors. [frame:1]
  • Two men stand outdoors near a horse, one holding reins. [frame:2]
Also said
“Why don't you let this town shoot it out and die?” 10:05 · “Only friends you've got are on the wrong side of the city.” 10:29
Seen
feathered hat, striped dress, cowboy hat, horse, reins, dark coat, patterned shirt, vest
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: conflict, loyalty, isolation, moral dilemma; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, outdoor scene lit by daylight, indoor scene lit by studio lighting

A woman in a feathered dress stands indoors while two men converse outdoors near a horse; one man is told to go to jail until Riker leaves town. The dialogue suggests tension over the town's fate and the marshal's pride.

“Go on over to jail and knock yourself up. I'll be over and let you out when Riker leaves town.” 9:54 · “What are you after, Dan?” 10:02 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 9:54 (passage 9:52–10:37); US record: No renewal found

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