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Beat 101

26:28–26:29 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 26:2826:28

Play from 26:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 53 · shots 203–203. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

People
  • Lower body and legs visible, wearing dark pants or trousers; motion suggests walking or stumbling; no facial or upper-body details. visible
Seen happening
  • A person's legs and lower body are seen moving in a dark, low-angle shot. [frame:1]
Seen
unknown object or surface [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: unclear due to lack of context and visual detail; style notes: low-angle, dark, grainy black-and-white shot; suggests motion and possible disorientation or struggle

A single frame from a 1936 film shows a dark, low-angle shot of a person's lower body and legs in motion, with no clear setting or identifiable objects. 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 Ghost-Town Gold (1936) at 26:28 (passage 26:28–26:29); US record: No renewal found

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