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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 269 · permalink

Town square

51:05–51:31 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 51:1351:13Frame at 51:2251:22Frame at 51:2851:28

Play from 51:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 181 · shots 488–490. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
town_square (town square, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, tie, and light shirt, mid-adult, average build visible, audible
  • man in cowboy hat, light shirt, dark vest, belt with gun holster, mid-adult, average build visible
  • man in cowboy hat and dark shirt, mid-adult, average build visible
  • older man with white hair, wearing dark suit, walking away visible
  • Barrington (named at t:51:18): man in dark suit, standing among group, mid-adult visible
Seen happening
  • An older man in a suit walks away from the group. [frame:3]
Also said
“This money was stolen by Barrington's men and hidden in Nemesis.” 51:14 · “Is that right, Barrington?” 51:18
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1], gun holster [frame:2], wooden fence [frame:3], wooden building facade [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, accusation, justice; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, outdoor daylight, static camera, Western genre framing

A group of men, some in cowboy hats and one in a suit, confront each other outdoors; one man in a suit walks away from the group. A character named Barrington is accused of stealing money, which he confirms.

“I'm going to go.” 51:05 · “Boys!” 51:12 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 51:13 (passage 51:05–51:31); US record: No renewal found

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