Public Reel

Abilene Town · Beat 49 · permalink

Street

15:40–16:46 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; 8 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 15:4415:44Frame at 16:1216:12Frame at 16:4116:41

Play from 15:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 31 · shots 101–103. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man in hat and vest, mid-adult visible, audible
  • woman with curly hair, wearing blouse and skirt visible, audible
  • man in hat, standing in street visible
  • man in dark coat, walking away visible
  • man on horseback, wearing hat visible
  • County Maller (named at t:15:46): man in suit, speaking to p1 audible, mentioned
  • man seeking Hanaberry, young audible, visible
  • man offering ride, mid-adult audible, visible
Seen happening
  • A man and woman stand facing each other on a street. [frame:1]
  • The same man and woman are now indoors, seated and talking. [frame:2]
  • A street scene with horses, riders, and pedestrians near a saloon. [frame:3]
Also said
“Can you tell me where the homesteaders camp is? Looking for a man named Hanaberry.” 16:15 · “Think I'll have a look at that... camp myself. Want a ride, son?” 16:33
Seen
hat, vest, saloonsign, horses, carriage, wooden buildings, dusty street, curly hair
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual and conversational with undertones of curiosity and social observation; themes: social interaction, frontier town life, gender roles, travel and direction; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural lighting, period costume, street-level framing

A man and a woman converse on a street while others gather nearby; a man offers a ride to another who is seeking a homesteader camp. The setting is a dusty town street with saloons and horse-drawn traffic.

“Poor old Bravo. I wonder how you'll get out of this one.” 15:41 · “You'll probably help him. Not me, County Maller.” 15:46 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.

Share

Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.

Frame from Abilene Town (1946) at 15:44 (passage 15:40–16:46); US record: No renewal found

Permalink
always the current cut
Permalink to this version
warns if the beats are recut later
Card image
https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/AbileneTown/b49.png
Figure for a newsletter or page
Cite