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Abilene Town · Beat 73 · permalink

Jail

22:52–22:54 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name 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 22:5322:53

Play from 22:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 39 · shots 157–157. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
jail (jail, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • silhouetted figure, possibly male, wearing dark clothing, seen from behind or side visible
Seen happening
  • A person moves near a wooden wall and a barred structure in a dimly lit room. [frame:1]
Seen
wooden wall [frame:1], barred structure [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, shadowy; themes: confinement, isolation; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, static framing

A dimly lit interior scene shows a person moving near a wooden wall and a barred structure. 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 22:53 (passage 22:52–22:54); US record: No renewal found

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