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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 21 · permalink

Shop

7:22–7:49 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 7:257:25Frame at 7:327:32Frame at 7:457:45Frame at 7:487:48

Play from 7:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 8 · shots 58–62. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
shop (shop, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in tweed suit, vest, bowler hat, white flower boutonniere, medium build visible, audible
  • man in patterned shirt, dark vest, cowboy hat, larger build visible, audible
  • man in cowboy hat, partially visible behind p2 visible
Seen happening
  • p1 stands at a table with dolls behind him, hands near a gun [frame:1]
  • p2 leans over the table, looking at p1 [frame:2]
  • p1 speaks while looking at p2 [frame:3]
  • p2 sits at the table, holding a gun, with others watching [frame:4]
Also said
“You win? Yeah. This one right here? Yeah. All right.” 7:27 · “- You want to try it again? - I'll try it. Carry your gun. Keep your eye on the age.” 7:33
Seen
gun [frame:1], dolls [frame:1], table [frame:2], cowboy hats [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and playful; themes: competition, Western frontier, gunplay as sport; style notes: medium shots, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s Westerns

Two men in Western attire interact near a table with dolls in the background; one man handles a gun while the other watches. Dialogue suggests a challenge or game involving shooting, with one man preparing to attempt it again.

“Now watch it.” 7:22 · “That's one, huh?” 7:24 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 7:25 (passage 7:22–7:49); US record: No renewal found

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