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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 127 · permalink

Bar

29:06–29:27 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 29:0929:09Frame at 29:1429:14Frame at 29:2129:21

Play from 29:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 73 · shots 261–263. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • shirtless man, muscular, dark hair, wearing shorts visible
  • Lullaby (named at t:29:18): man in patterned vest and dark hat, facing p3 visible, audible
  • man in light cowboy hat and shirt, seated, looking up at p2 visible
  • man in striped shirt, partially visible behind p1 visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a patterned vest stands over a seated cowboy-hatted man. [frame:1]
  • A shirtless man is held or supported by others. [frame:2]
  • The man in the patterned vest gestures toward the cowboy-hatted man. [frame:3]
Seen
cowboy hat, patterned vest, striped shirt, shorts, dark hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, confrontational; themes: confrontation, alcohol, masculinity; style notes: low-key lighting, medium close-ups, static camera, period Western costume

A shirtless man is surrounded by others in a dim interior; one man in a patterned vest speaks to a cowboy-hatted man. A line mentions 'Lullaby' and 'freezers', suggesting a bar or saloon context.

“Boy, did I see that one I get, huh? He can't take it.” 29:12 · “Hey, Lullaby, will you stop playing and give him some freezers?” 29:18 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 29:09 (passage 29:06–29:27); US record: No renewal found

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