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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 205 · permalink

Private office

42:14–42:29 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 42:2142:21

Play from 42:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 131 · shots 369–369. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • young man in cowboy hat and shirt, standing left visible
  • Uncle Jake (named at t:42:15): older man in cowboy hat and striped shirt, center visible, audible
  • man in light shirt and cowboy hat, holding gun, center-right visible, audible
  • Sabina (named at t:42:15): woman in dark hat and light blouse, right visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man holds a gun on an older man while demanding bank money. [frame:1]
Also said
“You'd give me the money, wouldn't you, Uncle Jake, if I ask you to?” 42:24
Seen
gun [frame:1], cowboy hats [frame:1], wooden counter [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: power struggle, family authority, criminal threat; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast lighting, Western costume and props

In a tense indoor confrontation, a man demands bank money from an older man called Uncle Jake, while a woman named Sabina asserts control over Jake. The group includes four men in Western attire, one holding a gun.

“Quick, Jake, where's that bank money? - I ain't interested. Come on, you old brother, give me that bank money or I'll... Uncle Jake won't give you anything unless I tell him to. That's right, Sabina.” 42:15 · “Okay.” 42:24 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 42:21 (passage 42:14–42:29); US record: No renewal found

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