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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 23 · permalink

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8:16–8:32 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 8:248:24

Play from 8:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 8 · shots 66–66. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark hat and patterned vest, gesturing visible
  • man in suit and tie, seated, looking up visible
  • man in hat, partially visible on left visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a vest speaks to a seated man in a suit. [frame:1]
Also said
“- You're tired again?” 8:25 · “Now, this game's not almost planned.” 8:27
Seen
dolls on shelves [frame:1], patterned vest [frame:1], suit and tie [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual, slightly tense; themes: gambling, conversation, dolls as background; style notes: medium shot, black-and-white, studio lighting, static framing

Three men are in a room with shelves of dolls behind them; one man in a patterned vest speaks to another in a suit while a third looks on. The transcript includes dialogue about street-car money and a game, suggesting a casual or gambling context.

“Always did like street-car money. Just a minute.” 8:20 · “You wanna try this just once more?” 8:23 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 8:24 (passage 8:16–8:32); US record: No renewal found

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