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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 275 · permalink

Desert

52:46–53:03 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 52:5052:50Frame at 52:5752:57Frame at 53:0253:02

Play from 52:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: cutting rhythm changes. Sequence 186 · shots 497–499. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
desert (desert, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Seen happening
  • Three riders on horseback are visible in a desert landscape. [frame:1]
  • The film displays a title card reading 'THE END' with a cactus silhouette. [frame:2]
  • The screen is black. [frame:3]
Seen
horses [frame:1], riders [frame:1], cactus silhouette [frame:2], title card 'THE END' [frame:2]
On screen
THE END
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: final; themes: closure, Western genre conventions; style notes: static wide shot of riders, followed by a stylized title card with silhouette, then fade to black; typical of 1930s Western endings

Three riders on horseback are seen in a desert landscape before the film cuts to a title card reading 'THE END' with a cactus silhouette, followed by a black screen. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in the frames beyond the end card.

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 52:50 (passage 52:46–53:03); US record: No renewal found

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