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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 12 · permalink

Sidewalk

4:08–4:17 Registered 1936

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

Frame at 4:134:13

Play from 4:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 6 · shots 31–31. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in cowboy hat, light shirt, dark neckerchief, belt with large buckle visible
  • man in cowboy hat, light shirt, dark pants, belt with buckle visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand near a wooden post with a poster. [frame:1]
Seen
poster on wooden post, cowboy hats, belt buckles
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: Western, urgent travel, money at stake; style notes: medium shot, outdoor daylight, static framing, period Western costume

Two men in cowboy attire stand near a wooden post with a poster; one speaks about riding fast to save money. No named characters appear, and the setting is outdoors near a building with signage.

“Suppose Lullaby knew about this? No wonder he wanted to go to Prospect.” 4:09 · “Hey, Tucson, we'll have to ride fast. Maybe we can save part of that 4300. Hey there!” 4:13 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 4:13 (passage 4:08–4:17); US record: No renewal found

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