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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 4 · permalink

Private office

1:05–1:29 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 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 1:141:14Frame at 1:241:24Frame at 1:271:27

Play from 1:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends. Sequence 4 · shots 3–5. 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
  • man wearing dark hat and coat, seated at desk visible
  • man wearing light cowboy hat and shirt, standing visible
  • Mr. Brandt (named at t:1:21): man wearing cowboy hat and patterned vest, standing visible
  • man wearing cowboy hat and shirt, standing between p2 and p3 visible
Seen happening
  • A check from The Bank of Chicago is displayed. [frame:3]
Seen
check, desk, cowboy hats
On screen
{'frame': 3, 'value': 'THE BANK OF CHICAGO\nChicago, Ill.\nJune 15, 1936\nPay to the order of\nSanson Smith\nForty-three hundred dollars\nJ. B. Brandt'}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral to slightly positive; themes: financial transaction, western attire, business interaction; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static camera, studio lighting

Two men in cowboy hats stand at a counter while a third man sits; a check from The Bank of Chicago is shown. One man thanks Mr. Brandt, and another comments on the season's work.

“Hey, you are boys. Thank you, Mr. Brandt.” 1:21 · “Not bad for a season's work.” 1:25 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 1:14 (passage 1:05–1:29); US record: No renewal found

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