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Abilene Town · Beat 40 · permalink

Shop

12:46–13:04 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 12:4812:48Frame at 12:5312:53Frame at 12:5812:58Frame at 13:0313:03

Play from 12:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 27 · shots 81–84. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
shop (shop, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man with glasses, wearing a white shirt and dark vest, medium build, middle-aged visible, audible
  • man wearing a cowboy hat, white shirt, dark vest, and necktie, with a star-shaped badge on his chest, middle-aged visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man with glasses is visible in frame 1. [frame:1]
  • The man in the cowboy hat is visible in frame 2, standing in front of shelves with bottles. [frame:2]
  • The man with glasses is visible again in frame 3. [frame:3]
  • The man in the cowboy hat is visible again in frame 4. [frame:4]
Also said
“I've got to compromise.” 12:59 · “And what I've got to do, you've got to do too.” 13:01
Seen
bottles on shelves [frame:2], sign reading 'COMPOUNDED' [frame:2], star-shaped badge [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and pragmatic; themes: conflict of interest, compromise, business ethics; style notes: medium close-ups, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting

Two men are in a store-like interior, discussing business with homesteaders versus cattlemen. One man states he must compromise and that the other must do the same.

“You starting on homesteaders again?” 12:46 · “Maybe I'd rather do business with homesteaders than with cattlemen.” 12:51 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 12:48 (passage 12:46–13:04); US record: No renewal found

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