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Abilene Town · Beat 77 · permalink

Theatre

23:15–23:19 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 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 23:1723:17

Play from 23:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 41 · shots 161–161. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
theatre (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • group of performers on stage, wearing costumes, visible under stage lighting visible
  • audience members seated, mostly in silhouette, facing stage visible
Seen
chandeliers [frame:1], stage curtains [frame:1], spotlights [frame:1], audience seating [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and performative; themes: performance, audience, theatrical spectacle; style notes: wide shot, high contrast lighting, stage-centered composition

A stage performance is underway in a crowded venue with performers visible under spotlights. The audience is seated and facing the stage, suggesting a live theatrical or musical act.

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 23:17 (passage 23:15–23:19); US record: No renewal found

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