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Abilene Town · Beat 61 · permalink

Bar

20:13–20:15 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 20:1420:14

Play from 20:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 33 · shots 138–138. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a hat and dark coat, seated at a table visible
  • man wearing a hat and light shirt, seated at a table visible
  • man wearing a hat and vest, seated at a table visible
  • man wearing a hat and dark coat, standing near table visible
Seen
long wooden table [frame:1], hanging lamps [frame:1], hats [frame:1], glassware on table [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or expectant; themes: social gathering, Western setting; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting from overhead lamps, period costume detail visible

A group of men in hats and period clothing are seated around a long table in a dimly lit interior space with hanging lamps. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 20:14 (passage 20:13–20:15); US record: No renewal found

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