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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 264 · permalink

Shop

49:39–50:15 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 49:4149:41Frame at 49:4749:47Frame at 49:4949:49Frame at 50:0450:04

Play from 49:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 178 · shots 474–479. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
shop (shop, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man on horseback, wearing cowboy hat and dark coat visible
  • Barrington (named at t:50:08): man in dark suit, holding a gun, standing indoors visible
Seen happening
  • A man on horseback is positioned outside a wooden building. [frame:1]
  • A view from inside a building shows a street scene through glass doors. [frame:2]
  • A sign reading 'MINING SUPPLIES' is visible through a window. [frame:3]
  • A man in a suit holds a gun inside a room. [frame:4]
Also said
“*knock knock*” 49:51 · “Hold it, Barrington, and don't move.” 50:08
Seen
horse, cowboy hat, gun, filing cabinet, oil lamp, sign reading 'MINING SUPPLIES'
On screen
MINING SUPPLIES
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, western setting, armed standoff; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, interior/exterior juxtaposition

A man on horseback is outside a wooden building while another man inside holds a gun. A sign reading 'MINING SUPPLIES' is visible through a window, and a voice commands someone named Barrington to hold still.

“I'm going to go.” 49:43 · “Come on.” 49:50 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 49:41 (passage 49:39–50:15); US record: No renewal found

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