Theatre
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.
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.
Share
Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.

- Permalink
- always the current cut
- Permalink to this version
- warns if the beats are recut later
- Card image
- https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/AbileneTown/b9.png
- Figure for a newsletter or page
- Cite

