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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 10 · permalink

Town square

3:32–4:01 Registered 1936

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; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 3:363:36Frame at 3:423:42Frame at 3:443:44Frame at 3:543:54

Play from 3:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 4 · shots 24–29. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
town_square (town square, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat, light shirt, dark pants, riding a white horse visible
  • man wearing cowboy hat, light shirt, dark pants, riding a dark horse visible
Seen happening
  • Two men on horseback pause and look toward Prospect. [frame:1]
  • The man on the white horse gestures while speaking. [frame:2]
  • The two men continue to observe, with the man on the white horse turning his head. [frame:3]
  • The man on the white horse dismounts and walks toward a wooden structure. [frame:4]
Seen
white horse [frame:1], dark horse [frame:1], wooden structure with tools [frame:2], wooden fence [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: curious, alert; themes: frontier observation, community dynamics, suspense; style notes: wide shots, high-contrast black-and-white, static camera, Western genre framing

Two men on horseback in a dusty town observe something off-screen; one dismounts and approaches a wooden structure. The transcript indicates they are commenting on the state of the community and noticing activity in Prospect.

“Well, this is a fine, thriving community. Yeah.” 3:39 · “Hold it, Tucson. Looks like something's doing over in Prospect.” 3:43 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 Ghost-Town Gold (1936) at 3:36 (passage 3:32–4:01); US record: No renewal found

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