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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 19 · permalink

Town square

6:30–7:03 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 6:316:31Frame at 6:386:38Frame at 6:466:46Frame at 6:566:56

Play from 6:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 8 · shots 52–55. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
town_square (town square, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • man in cowboy hat, dark vest, patterned shirt, carrying a lariat visible
  • man in light-colored hat and vest, seated in carriage visible
  • man in dark hat and vest, standing near a tent visible
  • man in dark hat, speaking audible
Seen happening
  • A horse-drawn carriage is parked in front of a bank. [frame:1]
  • A man in a cowboy hat walks past a horse and a striped pole. [frame:2]
  • A man in a cowboy hat walks through a crowd near a painted backdrop. [frame:3]
  • A group of men in hats gather near a tent. [frame:4]
Seen
horse-drawn carriage [frame:1], bank sign [frame:1], lariat [frame:3], striped pole [frame:2], painted backdrop [frame:3], tent [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lively and bustling; themes: Western frontier, gambling, public gathering; style notes: black-and-white, wide shots capturing crowd movement, natural daylight, period Western costumes

A man in a cowboy hat and vest walks through a crowded outdoor fair, passing a horse-drawn carriage and a bank, while another man speaks about betting and being quick. The scene is set in a dusty town with people in period Western attire.

“I'm going to go.” 6:30 · “Right here, there you are, sir. Don't crowd everybody and get a chance. All right, my friend, you're just in time, step right up. I'm here to bet two to one, and your hand is quicker than the eye. Now then, there you are, look at 'em, look at 'em.” 6:59 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 6:31 (passage 6:30–7:03); US record: No renewal found

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