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Abilene Town · Beat 57 · permalink

Town square

18:50–19:08 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; 5 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 18:5118:51Frame at 18:5518:55Frame at 19:0519:05Frame at 19:0719:07

Play from 18:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 32 · shots 126–130. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
town_square (town square, exterior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man in plaid shirt, light hair, medium build visible, audible
  • man in vest and bow tie, dark hat, medium build visible
  • older man in dark hat and shirt, visible in background visible
  • children near horse, one crouching, one standing visible
  • group of men and women in hats, standing in background visible
Seen happening
  • Children are looking over a horse under a tree. [frame:3]
  • A man in a vest and bow tie listens to the speaker. [frame:4]
Also said
“So did my son.” 18:50 · “Those are his children who are looking your horse over.” 18:50
Seen
horse, saddle and rope on horse, trees and outdoor setting, hats worn by multiple people
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber and reflective; themes: loss, community, generational memory; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, period Western attire

A man in a plaid shirt speaks to a group outdoors near a horse; children are inspecting the horse. Another man in a vest and bow tie listens, surrounded by onlookers in hats.

“I like that song you folks sing.” 18:50 · “My father died in the war.” 18:50 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 18:51 (passage 18:50–19:08); US record: No renewal found

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