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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 24 · permalink

Town square

8:32–8:43 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 8:338:33Frame at 8:358:35Frame at 8:408:40

Play from 8:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 9 · shots 67–69. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
town_square (town square, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man wearing a cowboy hat and dark vest, seen from behind visible
  • woman with light hair, wearing a patterned blouse visible
  • man wearing a bowler hat and patterned suit, holding paper visible
  • man in a fedora, partially visible visible
  • unspecified person audible
Seen happening
  • A clock tower with Roman numerals is shown. [frame:1]
  • A man in a cowboy hat stands next to a woman in a town square. [frame:2]
  • A man in a bowler hat examines a piece of paper at a table. [frame:3]
Seen
clock tower, cowboy hat, patterned blouse, bowler hat, patterned suit, paper, table
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral to slightly tense; themes: western town setting, social interaction, paper as object of focus; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static framing, period costume

A clock tower is shown, followed by a street scene with a man in a cowboy hat and a woman, then a man in a bowler hat examining paper. A voice tells someone to look at their other two cars.

“Hey, take a look at your other two cars.” 8:34 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 8:33 (passage 8:32–8:43); US record: No renewal found

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