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Abilene Town · Beat 96 · permalink

Bar

26:15–26:18 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 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 26:1626:16

Play from 26:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 49 · shots 186–186. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a vest and hat, mid-adult, average build visible
  • man wearing a vest, no hat, mid-adult, average build visible
  • man wearing a hat, partially obscured, mid-adult visible
Seen
hats [frame:1], wooden bar counter [frame:1], hanging lamp [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, group dynamics; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, high contrast lighting, crowded framing

A group of men in a dimly lit interior space, some wearing hats and vests, appear to be moving or reacting to something off-screen. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 26:16 (passage 26:15–26:18); US record: No renewal found

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