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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 206 · permalink

Private office

42:29–43:01 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 42:3042:30Frame at 42:3242:32Frame at 42:4442:44Frame at 42:5742:57

Play from 42:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 131 · shots 370–374. 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:3
People
  • Fanny (named at t:42:29): older man, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, glasses, and a light shirt with suspenders visible, audible
  • man in a dark hat and vest, partially visible visible
  • Sabina (named at t:42:29): woman with dark hair, wearing a dark hat and light blouse visible
  • man in a light cowboy hat and striped shirt visible
  • man in a light cowboy hat, visible in background visible
Also said
“Lullaby. You and Jake take Sabina and head back through the tunnel. Stoney and I will go through the back door and try to make our horses.” 42:43 · “When you hear the church bells ring, count five.” 42:54
Seen
wide-brimmed hat, glasses, wooden wall, cowboy hats, dark hat and vest, striped shirt
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: planning, secret mission, Western adventure; style notes: tight framing on faces, high-contrast lighting, period Western costumes, wooden interior suggests a saloon or office

A group of people in a wooden interior discuss a plan involving a tunnel, horses, and church bells. One man gives instructions while others listen, with a woman named Sabina present.

“- Sure would, Sabina. - Where is it, Fanny?” 42:29 · “Those darn fools are sitting on it right now.” 42:33 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 42:30 (passage 42:29–43:01); US record: No renewal found

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