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Abilene Town · Beat 8 · permalink

Interior

3:08–3:47 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 3:123:12Frame at 3:323:32

Play from 3:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 7 · shots 11–12. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
interior (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, seen from behind visible
  • woman in ornate dress with feathered headdress, outdoors visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands with his back to the camera in an interior space. [frame:1]
  • A woman in a decorative dress performs outdoors with a landscape backdrop. [frame:2]
Seen
dark suit, ornate dress with feathered headdress, landscape backdrop
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: nostalgic and theatrical; themes: love of the American West, contrast between hardship and affection, performance and persona; style notes: black-and-white, staged interior and outdoor scenes, dramatic lighting on performer

A man in a dark suit is seen from behind in an interior setting, while a woman in a decorative dress performs outdoors. The transcript includes a monologue expressing love for the Western landscape despite its hardships.

“I hate the wind that howls across the prairie. I hate to hear the coyote's nightly song.” 3:08 · “of six guns that they carry. It's much too hot in summertime, it's much too cold in winter, but listen mister, please don't get me wrong. I love it up here in the West, because the West is best for loving. When the stars are shining and the moon is low, you find me out with my Romeo.” 3:38 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 3:12 (passage 3:08–3:47); US record: No renewal found

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