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Abilene Town · Beat 93 · permalink

Theatre

26:00–26:11 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 26:0326:03Frame at 26:0926:09

Play from 26:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 48 · shots 182–183. 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
  • woman, wearing a dark costume with a large white feathered headdress and light-colored skirt, visible from the waist down visible
  • woman, similar costume to p1, visible from the waist down visible
  • woman, similar costume to p1, visible from the waist down visible
  • woman, similar costume to p1, visible from the waist down visible
  • woman, similar costume to p1, visible from the waist down visible
Seen happening
  • Women in costumes are dancing in a line. [frame:1]
  • The scene cuts to a dark, nearly black frame with faint shapes. [frame:2]
Seen
feathered headdresses [frame:1], costumes with light-colored skirts [frame:1], curtains or drapes in background [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: mysterious, theatrical; themes: performance, theatricality, transition; style notes: high-contrast black and white, stage lighting focused on performers, abrupt cut to darkness

A group of women in matching costumes dance in a dimly lit interior space. The scene then cuts to a dark, indistinct interior with minimal visible detail.

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 26:03 (passage 26:00–26:11); US record: No renewal found

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