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Abilene Town · Beat 41 · permalink

Bar

13:04–13:17 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 13:0913:09Frame at 13:1513:15

Play from 13:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 27 · shots 85–86. 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
  • Ed (named at t:13:04): man, mid-adult, wearing a white shirt, dark vest with a star badge, and a cowboy hat visible, audible
  • Dan (named at t:13:09): man, mid-adult, wearing a white shirt and dark vest, facing p1 visible, audible
  • woman, mid-adult, wearing a light dress with a dark apron, standing to the right visible
Seen happening
  • Three people stand in a bar facing each other; Ed wears a star badge. [frame:1]
  • The group remains in the bar; Ed turns slightly while speaking. [frame:2]
Also said
“You're Marshall.” 13:11 · “I'm Marshal” 13:15
Seen
{'item': 'star badge on vest', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'shelves of bottles behind bar', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'cowboy hat', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'apron on woman', 'frame': 1}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: authority, conflict, identity; style notes: medium close-up, studio-lit, black-and-white, static framing

In a bar, a man in a Marshal's star vest confronts another man while a woman looks on; the Marshal asserts his authority after being challenged. The scene is lit with studio lighting and shot in medium close-up.

“Then you better get yourself another Marshal Ed. Nothing makes me feel cheap when wearing a star don't mean anything.” 13:04 · “Now wait a minute Dan, now you're getting mad.” 13:09 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 13:09 (passage 13:04–13:17); US record: No renewal found

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