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Abilene Town · Beat 58 · permalink

Field

19:08–19:18 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 4 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 19:1319:13

Play from 19:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 32 · shots 131–131. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a dark hat and vest, standing facing another man visible
  • man in light shirt and dark pants, holding an object, facing p1 visible
  • man seated on left, wearing dark coat, watching visible
  • man in background, wearing hat, partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a vest hands an object to another man. [frame:1]
Seen
hat [frame:1], vest [frame:1], object being handed (possibly a gun or tool) [frame:1], wooden fence or barrier [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, transactional; themes: Western, exchange, outdoor gathering; style notes: medium shot, outdoor natural lighting, Western costume and setting, static framing

A group of men in Western attire stand outdoors in a dusty, hilly landscape; one man hands an object to another while others watch. The transcript includes brief spoken thanks and congratulations.

“Thanks. Congrats.” 19:13 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 19:13 (passage 19:08–19:18); US record: No renewal found

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