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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 258 · permalink

Private office

49:01–49:14 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 49:0449:04Frame at 49:1149:11

Play from 49:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 174 · shots 465–466. 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:2
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat and scarf, holding a knife, behind a barrel visible
  • man in light-colored hat, back to camera, standing at desk visible
  • man in suit, seated at desk, visible in mirror reflection visible
Seen
wooden barrel, knife, desk with drawers, mirror, coiled hose
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and desperate; themes: surrender, outnumbered, confrontation; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, Western genre framing with props like barrels and hats

A man in a cowboy hat speaks from behind a barrel while another man in a hat stands at a desk inside a building. A voice declares intent to surrender to a mob that outnumbers them fifty to one.

“Come on up, Sergeant! We fall off the fight! You're the only one we want! We're outnumbered fifty to one. It's only a question of time till the mob wipes us all out.” 49:02 · “I am going out there and surrender to them.” 49:12 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 49:04 (passage 49:01–49:14); US record: No renewal found

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