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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 214 · permalink

Wooden building exterior

44:02–44:13 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 44:0344:03Frame at 44:0644:06Frame at 44:0944:09Frame at 44:1244:12

Play from 44:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 135 · shots 384–387. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
wooden building exterior (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in cowboy hat and vest, running visible
  • man in cowboy hat and vest, running visible
  • woman in hat and shirt, standing visible
  • man in cowboy hat, firing gun from window visible
Seen happening
  • Two men in cowboy hats run away from a wooden building. [frame:1]
  • A woman stands near a man in a cowboy hat inside the building. [frame:2]
  • A man fires a gun from a window, producing smoke. [frame:3]
  • Smoke billows from the building's window after gunfire. [frame:4]
Seen
wooden building with stairs, cowboy hats, gun, smoke
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: action, western, conflict; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static camera, high-contrast lighting

Two men in cowboy hats run from a wooden building as a woman watches; one man is later seen firing a gun from a window. The transcript includes urgent dialogue: 'Wait a minute' and 'Look out! Let's go!'

“Wait a minute.” 44:04 · “Look out! Let's go!” 44:06 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 44:03 (passage 44:02–44:13); US record: No renewal found

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