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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 31 · permalink

Private office

10:09–10:14 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 10:1210:12

Play from 10:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 81–81. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man with white hair, wearing dark suit, seated at head of table visible
  • man in light-colored hat and coat, seated to left visible
  • man in dark suit, seated to right of p1 visible
  • man in dark suit and tie, standing behind p3 visible
Seen
{'item': 'wooden table with papers and hat on it', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'framed picture on wall', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'bookshelf with books', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'chairs around table', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious and tense; themes: authority, confrontation, negotiation; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, formal composition

Four men are gathered around a table in a dimly lit room; one sits at the head while others stand or sit nearby. No dialogue or on-screen text 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 10:12 (passage 10:09–10:14); US record: No renewal found

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