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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 14 · permalink

Street

4:36–5:06 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 4:374:37Frame at 4:434:43Frame at 4:574:57Frame at 5:045:04

Play from 4:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 6 · shots 34–41. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man in light shirt, cowboy hat, bandana, holding hand to chin visible, audible
  • man in checkered shirt, cowboy hat, bandana, looking at p1 visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A white horse steps out of a wooden building's doorway. [frame:4]
Also said
“- Let's get going, Tuzran. - Which way are you heading?” 4:49 · “Don't make any noise. The town council's having a meeting and you might disturb 'em.” 4:55
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1], wooden building with broken window [frame:3], white horse [frame:4], barrel [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: confrontation, rural setting, mystery; style notes: medium close-ups on characters, then cut to wide shot of building and horse; high-contrast black-and-white lighting

Two men in cowboy hats converse near a wooden building; one warns the other to be quiet near a town council meeting. A white horse emerges from the building's doorway.

“All right, Pop. Oh, I've seen your kind before.” 4:37 · “Snooping around kinda innocent like. Oh, now, Pop, you've got us all wrong. Well, rain's selling, I tell you.” 4:41 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 4:37 (passage 4:36–5:06); US record: No renewal found

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