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Abilene Town · Beat 9 · permalink

Theatre

3:47–4:26 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 3:503:50Frame at 4:104:10

Play from 3:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 7 · shots 13–14. 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, frame:2
People
  • Rita (named at t:4:26): woman, blonde, wearing a white dress with black feathered shoulders and a feathered headpiece visible, audible
  • man, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and dark coat, mustache visible visible
  • crowd of people in period attire, mostly seated visible
Seen
feathered dress [frame:1, frame:2], wide-brimmed hat [frame:2], theatre seating [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted and conversational; themes: Western life, social interaction, theatre performance; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, stage-like lighting, period costumes

A woman in a feathered dress is visible in a crowded interior setting, speaking about life in the West. A man in a hat is also present, and she addresses someone named Rita, asking why she is not in church with the storekeeper.

“Out in the West I love it out here in the West Because the life is free and easy You can do most anything you doggone please There's room to stretch” 4:08 · “Sorry, Rita. Why aren't you in church with the storekeeper?” 4:26 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 3:50 (passage 3:47–4:26); US record: No renewal found

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