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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 209 · permalink

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43:21–43:31 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 43:2643:26

Play from 43:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 133 · shots 377–377. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a cowboy hat, light-colored shirt, and vest, seen from the back visible
  • man in dark hat and vest, facing p1, partially visible visible
  • person in dark dress or long garment, standing to the left of p1, partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cowboy hat gestures toward a machine while speaking to two others. [frame:1]
Seen
cowboy hat [frame:1], machine (unspecified) [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: curious and instructional; themes: demonstration, mechanical invention, interaction among characters; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film stock, typical of 1930s cinema

A man in a cowboy hat gestures toward a machine while speaking to two others in a dimly lit interior. The transcript indicates he is introducing or demonstrating the machine.

“This is my operating machine, right?” 43:25 · “I'll show you.” 43:27 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 43:26 (passage 43:21–43:31); US record: No renewal found

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