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Abilene Town · Beat 59 · permalink

Field

19:18–19:50 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 19:2219:22Frame at 19:3119:31Frame at 19:3919:39Frame at 19:4719:47

Play from 19:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 32 · shots 132–135. 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
  • adult male, wearing a dark vest over a white shirt and a wide-brimmed hat, on horseback visible
  • adult male, wearing a dark vest and hat, standing near a horse visible
  • child, wearing dark clothes, standing near adults visible
  • adult female, wearing a bonnet and long dress, seated visible
  • child, wearing a light dress, seated on a wagon wheel visible
  • adult male, wearing a dark hat and coat, standing near a wagon visible
Seen happening
  • A man on horseback speaks to a group near a covered wagon. [frame:1]
  • A man in a hat looks off-camera while seated on a horse. [frame:2]
  • The man on horseback rides forward through a crowd. [frame:3]
  • A woman and child sit near a covered wagon while others stand nearby. [frame:4]
Also said
“He was born, was born, was born, was born.” 19:31 · “With our glory in His bosom, that grandfathers you and me.” 19:36
Seen
horse [frame:1], covered wagon [frame:4], trees [frame:1], hat [frame:2], bonnet [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn and conversational; themes: frontier life, religious sentiment, family and community; style notes: black-and-white, medium to long shots, natural outdoor lighting, period costumes

A man on horseback speaks to a group outdoors near a covered wagon; a woman and child sit nearby. The transcript includes dialogue about driving a horse and a religious hymn.

“Oh, I don't believe you. I don't think you did at all. I did so, Roddy. Didn't I, Mr? Sure did.” 19:19 · “I can drive a horse behind a plow. Doing what? Putting in weed.” 19:26 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 19:22 (passage 19:18–19:50); US record: No renewal found

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