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Abilene Town · Beat 36 · permalink

Street

10:48–10:56 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 10:5210:52

Play from 10:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 26 · shots 69–69. 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
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat, light shirt, dark vest, seated on horse visible
  • multiple riders on horseback, indistinct clothing visible
  • figures standing near storefronts, indistinct visible
Seen
horse [frame:1], cowboy hat [frame:1], vest [frame:1], storefronts with awnings [frame:1], dusty street [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: western, town setting, horseback riding; style notes: black and white, medium shot, static framing, natural lighting

A man in a cowboy hat and vest sits on a horse in a dusty street with other riders and storefronts visible. The scene is shot in black and white with no audible dialogue in this segment.

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 10:52 (passage 10:48–10:56); US record: No renewal found

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