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Abilene Town · Beat 39 · permalink

Bar

12:16–12:46 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; 2 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 12:2012:20Frame at 12:3012:30Frame at 12:3412:34Frame at 12:4212:42

Play from 12:16 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 75–80. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(bar, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • older man, wearing glasses, white shirt, dark vest, bow tie visible, audible
  • Ed (named at t:12:40): younger man, wearing cowboy hat, white shirt, dark vest, necktie, star-shaped badge on vest visible, audible
Also said
“You're nothing but a wood tick hanging on to a trail town. You're a lost cause.” 12:34 · “No, I'd like to see you buck up, Ed, and not let them know how weak you feel.” 12:40
Seen
shelves with bottles, sign reading 'COMPOUNDED', cowboy hat, star-shaped badge
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: authority, threat, personal resolve; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, static framing, high-contrast lighting emphasizing faces

Two men converse in a dimly lit interior with shelves of bottles; one older man in glasses speaks while a younger man in a cowboy hat listens. The dialogue references a marshal, a threat of violence on Texas Street, and a suggestion to apologize to someone named Ryker.

“Father, what do you want Dan to do? Well, I thought maybe if he went to Cap Riker and explained it was all a mistake.” 12:15 · “In 24 hours trail hands sweep across Texas Street and shoot into your parlor windows just to hear the women scream.” 12:23 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 12:20 (passage 12:16–12:46); US record: No renewal found

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