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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 179 · permalink

Private office

33:34–34:03 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; 3 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 33:4833:48

Play from 33:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 114 · shots 339–339. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a hat and dark shirt, holding a hat in hand visible
  • man with beard, wearing light shirt and dark vest visible
  • man wearing patterned shirt, partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • A man holds a hat while standing with two others in a dim room. [frame:1]
Seen
hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: pursuit, hidden treasure, loyalty and division; style notes: low-key lighting, medium shot, static framing, period costume

Three men are shown in a dimly lit interior, one holding a hat; dialogue mentions retrieving cattle, a character named Jake, and a location called Nemesis. Plans are made to intercept Jake near a river and bridge to prevent him from hiding Nemesis.

“They do sound. That bank money's in Nemesis. Old Jake's got it. We gotta get their cattle. I got your clothes. Come on.” 33:36 · “We'll cut to the river below the bridge and try and head Jake off before Buck and his men can overtake him. If we don't, he'll hide nemesis and we'll never find him. Lullaby, you stick with the Thorns.” 33:51 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 33:48 (passage 33:34–34:03); US record: No renewal found

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