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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 149 · permalink

Saloon

31:30–31:45 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Not yet checked. The automatic checks have not run on this beat. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 31:3131:31Frame at 31:3331:33Frame at 31:4031:40

Play from 31:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 91 · shots 298–300. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
saloon (bar, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • Jay (named at t:31:38): man in wide-brimmed hat and striped shirt, smiling broadly visible
  • man in light shirt and vest, holding sack, looking up visible
  • man in dark hat and coat, back to camera visible
  • man in cowboy hat, smiling, standing behind p1 visible
  • man in dark hat, partially visible on right visible
Seen happening
  • A hand holds up a sack labeled '1,000 GOLD NATIONAL BANK PROSPECT'. [frame:1]
  • Several men in hats gather around a man holding the sack. [frame:2]
  • A man in a striped shirt smiles broadly while others look at him. [frame:3]
Also said
“You ain't here.” 31:39 · “Yeah.” 31:41
Seen
sack labeled '1,000 GOLD NATIONAL BANK PROSPECT' [frame:1], wide-brimmed hats [frame:2], wooden wall paneling [frame:2]
On screen
1,000 GOLD NATIONAL BANK PROSPECT
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: money, secrecy, Western frontier; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static camera, period Western costumes

A man holds a sack labeled '1,000 GOLD NATIONAL BANK PROSPECT' while others gather around him in a wooden interior. One man speaks to another, calling him 'Jay', and another says 'You ain't here.'

“Where'd you get all that money, Uncle? Don't tell anybody. I made it myself.” 31:33 · “That's great, Jay.” 31:38 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 31:31 (passage 31:30–31:45); US record: No renewal found

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