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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 262 · permalink

Town square

49:34–49:37 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 49:3549:35

Play from 49:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 176 · shots 472–472. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(town square, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Seen
bank building, hat, rail fence
On screen
[{'text': 'BANK', 'frame': 1}]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: still, desolate; themes: Western frontier, abandoned settlement; style notes: low-angle shot from behind foreground object; high-contrast black-and-white; static composition

A single frame shows a small wooden building labeled 'BANK' with American flags, viewed from behind a foreground object resembling a hat. No people or actions are visible, and no dialogue 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 49:35 (passage 49:34–49:37); US record: No renewal found

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