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Abilene Town · Beat 66 · permalink

Private office

22:02–22:12 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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 22:0322:03Frame at 22:0622:06Frame at 22:1022:10

Play from 22:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 148–150. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a wide-brimmed hat, dark jacket, and neckerchief, medium build visible, audible
  • man wearing vest over shirt, no hat, standing with hands on hips visible
Also said
“What's that?” 22:07 · “Well, it's...” 22:08
Seen
wide-brimmed hat [frame:1], wooden desk or table [frame:2], window with patterned glass [frame:1], wall-mounted lamp or fixture [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and contemplative; themes: loyalty, dialogue-driven confrontation; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, Western costume and set design

Two men in Western attire converse inside a dimly lit room with wooden walls and a window; one man in a hat speaks while the other listens. No names are spoken, and no objects beyond furniture and clothing are clearly identifiable.

“loyalty for you.” 22:03 · “Loyalty?” 22:05 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 22:03 (passage 22:02–22:12); US record: No renewal found

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