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Abilene Town · Beat 79 · permalink

Theatre

23:39–24:26 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 23:4123:41Frame at 23:5123:51Frame at 24:0424:04Frame at 24:1724:17

Play from 23:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 41 · shots 164–167. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
theatre (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat, vest, and white shirt visible
  • woman in feathered headdress and ornate stage costume, smiling visible
  • group of female dancers in black leotards and feathered hats visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cowboy hat stands beside a piano. [frame:1]
  • A woman in a feathered costume smiles at the camera, surrounded by other performers. [frame:2]
  • A dancer is lifted by male partners on stage in front of an audience. [frame:3]
  • A group of female dancers perform synchronized choreography on stage. [frame:4]
Also said
“All you gotta do is give a whistle. I'll be at your feet.” 23:42 · “There's a very simple little tale. All you gotta do is snap your fingers and I'll do the rest.” 24:12
Seen
piano, feathered headdresses, stage curtains, leotards
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: romantic and theatrical; themes: devotion, performance, romantic promise; style notes: black-and-white, stage lighting, medium and wide shots, period costumes

A man in a cowboy hat is seen near a piano in a dimly lit room, followed by scenes of a woman in a feathered costume performing on stage with other dancers. The transcript contains lyrics about devotion and responsiveness to a loved one's call.

“All you gotta do is snap your fingers and I'll be there.” 23:42 · “All you gotta do is clap your hands and I'll come running anywhere.” 23:42 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 23:41 (passage 23:39–24:26); US record: No renewal found

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