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Abilene Town · Beat 38 · permalink

Bar

11:28–12:16 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 11:4511:45Frame at 12:0412:04Frame at 12:0812:08Frame at 12:1312:13

Play from 11:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 27 · shots 71–74. 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, middle-aged, wearing vest and shirt, no hat in frame 2 visible, audible
  • Dan (named at t:11:33): man, middle-aged, wearing vest, tie, and star badge, cowboy hat visible, audible
  • woman, middle-aged, wearing patterned dress and apron visible, audible
Also said
“If there's any killing to be done, Dan just sees to it. It's done pleasantly. Is that it?” 11:57 · “And as town supervisor, I appointed him marshal. Still right. Well, does that give me the right to ask him to watch his step or not?” 12:09
Seen
star badge [frame:1], bottles on shelves [frame:1], sign reading 'COMPOUNDED' [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: authority, moral responsibility, town governance; style notes: medium shots, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s Westerns

Three people stand in a saloon, discussing the marshal's duties and past appointment. One man, wearing a star, is addressed about his actions and past circumstances.

“See that pretty little star? And who put it there? You did. You did.” 11:40 · “with instructions to keep this town peaceful, and not let trailhands and saloon keepers get out of hand. But I didn't tell them to drive business away.” 11:44 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 11:45 (passage 11:28–12:16); US record: No renewal found

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