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Abilene Town · Beat 48 · permalink

Train

14:56–15:40 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; 6 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 14:5814:58Frame at 15:0315:03Frame at 15:2015:20Frame at 15:3115:31

Play from 14:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 31 · shots 96–100. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
train (train, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark coat and hat, standing, facing others visible, audible
  • man in light shirt, dark vest, cowboy hat, seated next to woman visible
  • woman in light dress with dark trim, seated next to man visible
  • man in dark suit, bow tie, holding a cigar, surrounded by others visible
  • man in uniform, standing near p4 visible
  • man in light coat and hat, standing near p4 visible
Seen happening
  • A group gathers around the man reporting the robbery. [frame:4]
Also said
“I was saying... If you get a posse started right away, you might catch him. I might catch the wrong man too and get the county sued. What'd he look like? He was tall, had little brown eyes and a black beard. Had a little brown beard.” 15:28 · “I see. No identification.” 15:38
Seen
train, horses, cigar, cowboy hat, uniform
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: crime, community response, western setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, naturalistic lighting, period costumes

A man reports a train robbery to a group at a station, describing the robber as tall with brown eyes and a black beard. A woman and another man are seen seated nearby, while others gather around the reporter.

“Where's the sheriff? Where's the sheriff? Don't that train make enough noise and knock you in to it?” 14:56 · “Sheriff? The train was held up. The train held up?” 15:03 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 14:58 (passage 14:56–15:40); US record: No renewal found

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