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Abilene Town · Beat 44 · permalink

Porch

13:31–14:06 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 13:4813:48

Play from 13:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 30 · shots 89–89. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
porch (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a light blouse with dark trim and a skirt, standing visible, audible
  • Dan (named at t:13:59): man, wearing a dark hat, light shirt, and dark vest, standing visible, audible
  • woman, wearing a long light dress, standing on porch steps in background visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand facing each other on a porch; another woman stands on the porch steps behind them. [frame:1]
Also said
“I always know where you are. No, I'm not resigning. I was only trying to put some steel in there. You didn't succeed. You never will. Never's a long time. I do both.” 13:48 · “I think we had a little trouble down the friday today, Dan. Oh, nothing important. I understand you filed for re-election next fall, Bravo.” 13:59
Seen
porch [frame:1], wooden post [frame:1], hat [frame:1], vest [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: conflict, political ambition, personal confrontation; style notes: medium shot, black-and-white, studio lighting, period costume

A man and a woman converse on a porch; the woman urges the man to resign, which he refuses. Another woman stands in the background on the porch steps.

“Oh, my God.” 13:32 · “You should resign.” 13:43 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 13:48 (passage 13:31–14:06); US record: No renewal found

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