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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 192 · permalink

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38:55–39:45 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 39:2039:20

Play from 38:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 120 · shots 353–353. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a fedora and coat, visible in shadow visible, audible
  • man wearing a plaid shirt and hat, partially visible behind p1 visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand close together in a dark, narrow space. [frame:1]
Seen
fedora hat, plaid shirt, coat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and cautious; themes: caution, uncertainty, nighttime danger; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing, high contrast shadows suggest noir or suspense influence

Two men in hats and coats are seen in a dark, narrow space, discussing waiting until daylight to act. One speaks of the town giving him 'the willies,' suggesting unease about proceeding at night.

“Boy, what a talent. It's no wonder Jake's a little bit goofy. Yeah, aren't you right?” 39:23 · “I'm in favour of waiting till daylight before closing in on them blokes! Me too. This town's given me the willies.” 39:33 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 39:20 (passage 38:55–39:45); US record: No renewal found

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