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3:06–3:08 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 3:073:07

Play from 3:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 6 · shots 10–10. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and tie, medium build, dark hair visible
  • woman in light-colored dress with dark trim, mid-20s to 30s visible
  • man in dark suit with patterned vest and bow tie, older, heavier build visible
  • man in background, partially visible, wearing dark suit visible
Seen
book or ledger, window
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal or tense; themes: social gathering, formal interaction; style notes: medium shot, black-and-white, studio lighting, static framing, period costumes

A group of people stands indoors in what appears to be a public gathering space; no dialogue is provided for this beat. The setting includes multiple individuals in period attire, with one person holding a book-like object.

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 3:07 (passage 3:06–3:08); US record: No renewal found

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