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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 199 · permalink

Town square

40:28–40:50 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 40:3740:37Frame at 40:4840:48

Play from 40:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 127 · shots 361–362. 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
People
  • man in dark coat and hat, back to camera, standing in crowd visible
  • man in light shirt and hat, facing camera, standing in doorway visible
  • man with mustache, wearing hat and vest, visible in crowd visible
  • Barrington (named at t:40:39): man in hat, speaking, visible in doorway visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A crowd of men in hats gathers outside a building. [frame:1]
  • A man in a doorway speaks to the crowd. [frame:2]
Also said
“I'm gonna tell you something, Barrington.” 40:39 · “But I don't believe Thornton's a crook. Then why didn't you keep your money in his bank? Yeah, and we got it pretty straight that Tucson Smith and his two pals robbed the bank last night.” 40:48
Seen
hats [frame:1], crowd of men [frame:1], building doorway [frame:2], sign on building [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: suspicion, community tension, accusation; style notes: medium shots, high contrast lighting, crowd framing emphasizes confrontation

A crowd of men in hats gathers outside a building; one man speaks about Thornton and money lost in a bank robbery. Another man questions why the speaker didn’t keep money in Thornton’s bank, and mentions Tucson Smith and his pals robbed it.

“Come here!” 40:28 · “I wouldn't be too hasty, man.” 40:35 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 40:37 (passage 40:28–40:50); US record: No renewal found

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