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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 200 · permalink

Street

40:50–41:11 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 40:5840:58Frame at 41:0941:09

Play from 40:50 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 363–364. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, clean-shaven, medium build visible, audible
  • man in cowboy hat, mustache, wearing vest and bandana visible
  • man in cowboy hat, older, wearing light hat and coat visible
  • man in dark suit, standing behind crowd visible
  • man in cowboy hat, facing away, partial view visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit addresses a crowd of men in cowboy hats. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit appears behind the crowd, looking forward. [frame:2]
Also said
“But remember what I said about acting hasty.” 41:02 · “Come on, men, let's get 'em!” 41:04
Seen
cowboy hats, suit, bandana, vest, wooden building facade, sign partially visible
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, authority vs. mob, western town setting; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white, staged crowd composition

A man in a suit speaks to a crowd of men in cowboy hats on a street; another man in a suit appears behind the crowd. The transcript includes dialogue about letting someone in and a warning against hasty action.

“and Fung let him in.” 40:56 · “Well, what you do is your own business.” 40:59 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 40:58 (passage 40:50–41:11); US record: No renewal found

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