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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 249 · permalink

Private office

48:38–48:40 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 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 48:3948:39

Play from 48:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 165 · shots 455–455. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, balding, wearing dark jacket, visible from side visible
  • man wearing light-colored cowboy hat and dark coat, back to camera visible
Seen happening
  • A man aims a rifle from behind a counter. [frame:1]
  • A man in a cowboy hat stands facing the counter. [frame:1]
Seen
rifle [frame:1], wooden counter with drawers [frame:1], cowboy hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, western genre tropes; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, medium shot framing two figures in profile and back view, shallow depth of field

Two men are in a dim interior; one aims a rifle from behind a counter while the other stands with his back to the camera. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 48:39 (passage 48:38–48:40); US record: No renewal found

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