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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 123 · permalink

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28:42–28:44 Registered 1936

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 28:4328:43

Play from 28:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 70 · shots 251–251. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man with mustache, wearing a light-colored fedora and a checkered suit jacket with a tie visible
  • man wearing a dark suit, bow tie, and smiling; partially visible visible
  • man in background wearing a dark cowboy hat and plaid shirt visible
Seen
{'item': 'light-colored fedora hat', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'checkered suit jacket', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'bow tie', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'cowboy hat', 'frame': 1}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral to conversational; themes: social interaction, western attire; style notes: medium close-up, black-and-white, studio lighting, focused on two central figures with shallow depth of field

Two men in hats converse in a crowded indoor setting; one wears a checkered suit and a light hat, the other a dark suit and bow tie. No dialogue or on-screen text is provided for 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 28:43 (passage 28:42–28:44); US record: No renewal found

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