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Abilene Town · Beat 37 · permalink

Bar

10:56–11:28 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 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 11:1211:12

Play from 10:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 27 · shots 70–70. 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 in dark suit and hat, standing left visible
  • man in vest and shirt, standing center, holding paper visible, audible
  • man in suit, standing right visible, audible
Also said
“Remember, Riker suggested I give you a hand.” 11:18 · “Of all the people in that saloon, you had to knock out the brains of the most influential cattlemen on the trail.” 11:27
Seen
bar counter [frame:1], bottles and glasses on shelves [frame:1], paper held by man in vest [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: power struggle, law enforcement, consequences of violence; style notes: medium shot, three men at bar, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s film noir, static framing

Three men are in a saloon; one speaks about keeping Riker satisfied and needing a marshal, while another mentions Riker suggested helping. A later line criticizes knocking out an influential cattlemen.

“Only chance we got is to keep Riker satisfied. Riker's no cow hand to be slugged with a gun.” 11:05 · “We want a marshal to keep us in good with Riker, not a killer.” 11:09 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 11:12 (passage 10:56–11:28); US record: No renewal found

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