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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 198 · permalink

Town square

40:07–40:28 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 40:1140:11Frame at 40:2140:21

Play from 40:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 126 · shots 359–360. 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:2
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat and patterned shirt, holding revolver visible
  • man wearing cowboy hat, partially visible, seated or crouched visible
  • men on horseback and on foot, wearing cowboy hats and period Western clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A man holds a revolver inside a wooden structure. [frame:1]
  • Men on horseback and on foot move near a building labeled 'MINER'S CAFE'. [frame:2]
Also said
“Come here!” 40:28
Seen
revolver [frame:1], cowboy hats [frame:1, frame:2], horses [frame:2], MINER'S CAFE sign [frame:2]
On screen
MINER'S CAFE
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: Western frontier, urgent pursuit, gun conflict; style notes: black-and-white Western framing, medium close-up inside, wide exterior shot, high contrast lighting

A man in a cowboy hat holds a revolver inside a wooden structure while another man is partially visible. Outside, men on horseback and on foot move near a building labeled 'MINER'S CAFE' as someone shouts to fire.

“We can't stay here much longer. Unless we can locate Jake and get that money in the bank before it opens this morning, Forden's a dead Harry!” 40:09 · “Fire there, boys! Fire there!” 40:24 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 40:11 (passage 40:07–40:28); US record: No renewal found

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