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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 237 · permalink

Field

46:29–47:07 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 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 46:3046:30Frame at 46:4846:48Frame at 46:5546:55Frame at 47:0547:05

Play from 46:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 155 · shots 422–433. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat, light shirt, dark pants, holding a whip or rope visible
  • man in cowboy hat riding a dark horse visible
  • man in cowboy hat riding a light horse visible
Seen happening
  • A man in cowboy attire stands near rocks and trees, holding a whip or rope. [frame:1]
  • The same man swings the whip or rope while standing beside a large rock. [frame:2]
  • The man crouches and aims the whip or rope toward the left, near tree branches. [frame:3]
  • Two men on horseback ride through a shallow, rushing stream. [frame:4]
Seen
{'item': 'cowboy hat', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'whip or rope', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'horse', 'frame': 4}, {'item': 'stream', 'frame': 4}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, gold, Western adventure; style notes: black-and-white, outdoor Western setting, medium and long shots, natural lighting

A man in cowboy attire is seen on foot near rocks and trees, then two riders on horseback cross a shallow, rushing stream. The transcript indicates intent to confront someone over gold.

“I keep on. I'm going to help to start.” 46:29 · “Come on, we've got to hit him off of that gold.” 46:45 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 46:30 (passage 46:29–47:07); US record: No renewal found

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