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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 45 · permalink

Town square

10:47–10:56 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; 10 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 10:4910:49Frame at 10:5410:54

Play from 10:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 26 · shots 95–96. 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 cowboy hat and light shirt, gesturing with right hand visible
  • man lying on ground in dark shirt and pants visible
  • man in dark vest and hat, standing near center visible
  • man in light shirt and bow tie, holding a small object visible
  • man in cowboy hat and light shirt, facing p4 visible
  • man in dark shirt and hat, standing behind p4 visible
  • man in dark shirt and hat, standing to left of p1 visible
  • man in dark shirt and hat, standing behind p1 visible
  • man in dark shirt and hat, standing to right of p1 visible
  • man in dark shirt and hat, standing to far right visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cowboy hat gestures with his right hand while speaking to a group. [frame:1]
  • A man lies on the ground in front of the group. [frame:1]
  • A man in a light shirt and bow tie holds a small object while talking to another man. [frame:2]
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1], gun belts [frame:1], small object held by p4 [frame:2], sign reading 'FIGHT HEADQUARTERS' [frame:2]
On screen
FIGHT HEADQUARTERS
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, exile, western town; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white, outdoor daylight lighting, group composition with central action

A man in a cowboy hat gestures while speaking to a group in a dusty town square; another man lies on the ground nearby. The transcript indicates an order to leave town, directed at the group and one individual in particular.

“I get out of town and don't come back.” 10:51 · “That means you too.” 10:53 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 10:49 (passage 10:47–10:56); US record: No renewal found

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