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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 253 · permalink

Mining office

48:47–48:52 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Not yet checked. The automatic checks have not run on this beat. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 48:4848:48Frame at 48:5048:50

Play from 48:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 169 · shots 459–460. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
mining office (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • rider on horseback, wearing hat and dark clothing visible
  • rider on horseback, wearing light shirt and hat visible
  • rider on horseback, partially visible, wearing dark clothing visible
  • rider on horseback, wearing light shirt and hat, trailing dust visible
  • unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A window with a sign reading 'MINING OFFICE' is visible from inside a room. [frame:1]
  • Four riders on horseback gallop along a dusty road. [frame:2]
Seen
window with sign, horses, dust cloud
On screen
MINING OFFICE
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: race against time, western setting, desperation; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot of interior window, wide shot of riders in motion, high contrast lighting

A group of riders on horseback gallops along a dusty road while an interior shot shows a window with a sign reading 'MINING OFFICE'. A voice says they will not make it and that it is almost 10, insisting someone must make it.

“We'll never make it. It's almost 10. He's got to make it.” 48:48 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 48:48 (passage 48:47–48:52); US record: No renewal found

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