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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 13 · permalink

Street

4:17–4:36 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 4:234:23Frame at 4:324:32

Play from 4:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 6 · shots 32–33. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in cowboy hat, light shirt, dark vest, holding a rifle visible
  • man in cowboy hat, dark shirt, bandana, belt with holster visible
  • Jake Rollins (named at t:4:30): older man with beard, wide-brimmed hat, light shirt, dark vest, gesturing visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Three men stand facing each other on a street; one holds a rifle. [frame:1]
  • The older man gestures while speaking. [frame:2]
Also said
“Oh, I'm Jake Rollins.” 4:30 · “And I own it. Much more, I ain't selling a bit of it.” 4:32
Seen
rifle, cowboy hats, holster belt, wooden buildings, fence
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but conversational; themes: ownership, confrontation, frontier setting; style notes: medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, period Western costume, static framing

Three men in cowboy attire converse in an outdoor setting with wooden buildings; one identifies himself as Jake Rollins and claims ownership of the town. No on-screen text or clear time-of-day indicators are visible.

“Howdy, strangers. Anything special I can do for you?” 4:21 · “What are you doing in this ghost town?” 4:27 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 4:23 (passage 4:17–4:36); US record: No renewal found

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