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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 222 · permalink

Street

44:50–45:16 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 44:5244:52Frame at 45:0545:05

Play from 44:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 141 · shots 402–403. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Carter (named at t:44:55): older man, white hair, dark suit, visible in frame 2 visible, audible
  • man in light suit, back to camera, visible in frame 1 visible
  • man in cowboy hat and vest, visible in frame 1 and 2 visible
  • man in cowboy hat, visible in frame 2 visible
  • group of men in hats and coats, visible in frame 1 visible
Seen happening
  • A group of men stand outside a building, some entering. [frame:1]
  • An older man in a suit speaks to two men in cowboy hats inside the building. [frame:2]
Also said
“Rain.” 44:59 · “There's no use for all of you risking your lives when I'm the only one they want. Come on, come on out of there!” 45:06
Seen
wooden fence rail [frame:1], cowboy hats [frame:1, frame:2], gun belt [frame:2], storefront with sign 'B' [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, confrontational; themes: sacrifice, confrontation, Western standoff; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast black and white, static camera, period Western costumes and set design

A man in a suit speaks to armed men outside a building, then turns to speak with two men inside. The transcript indicates he intends to go out and meet them, believing he is the only one they want.

“I'm going to open the door Carter.” 44:55 · “Perhaps I can explain it.” 44:58 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 44:52 (passage 44:50–45:16); US record: No renewal found

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