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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 114 · permalink

Beat 114

28:20–28:21 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 28:2028:20

Play from 28:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 61 · shots 242–242. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

People
  • Person wearing a dark hat with a wide brim, partially obscuring the face; visible cheek and jawline suggest adult; clothing not visible. visible
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hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: mysterious or tense; style notes: High-contrast black-and-white lighting; tight close-up framing emphasizes facial features and shadow.

A single close-up frame shows a person's face partially obscured by a dark hat brim, with strong chiaroscuro lighting. No actions, dialogue, or identifiable setting are visible 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 28:20 (passage 28:20–28:21); US record: No renewal found

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