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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 274 · permalink

Field

52:18–52:46 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 52:2852:28Frame at 52:4252:42

Play from 52:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 185 · shots 495–496. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark cowboy hat, patterned shirt, vest, holding a document visible
  • man in light cowboy hat, holding a puppet with exaggerated facial features visible
  • man in cowboy hat, seated, gesturing with hand visible
Seen happening
  • A man holds out a document toward another man holding a puppet. [frame:1]
  • A man holds a puppet with a surprised expression while looking at another man. [frame:2]
Also said
“Ha ha, come on! Ha ha ha ha! What do you lie for that?” 52:31 · “Some darn fools that'll look like you.” 52:42
Seen
document [frame:1], puppet [frame:2], cowboy hats [frame:1], patterned shirts [frame:1], vests [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted with a hint of confusion or discomfort; themes: contract negotiation, humor through absurdity, physical comedy with puppet; style notes: medium close-ups, outdoor natural lighting, black-and-white film stock, static camera

Three men in cowboy attire are outdoors; one holds a document while another holds a puppet. The transcript includes dialogue about a contract and laughter, followed by concern about someone not feeling well.

“I have a contract here with Kramatsky for a rematch fight.” 52:24 · “Why, sure.” 52:28 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 52:28 (passage 52:18–52:46); US record: No renewal found

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