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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 46 · permalink

Street

10:56–11:31 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 7 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 10:5910:59Frame at 11:1611:16

Play from 10:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 26 · shots 97–98. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light shirt and cowboy hat, walking toward camera, appears distressed visible
  • Thornton (named at t:11:23): man in cowboy hat and light shirt, kneeling beside injured man, holding his hand visible
  • Tommy (named at t:11:01): injured man lying on bench, head propped up, wearing dark shirt visible
  • woman with dark hair in period dress, standing behind injured man, looking concerned visible
  • man in cowboy hat and dark shirt, standing behind injured man, looking down visible
  • man in cowboy hat and light shirt, standing to left, watching visible
  • man in cowboy hat and dark shirt, standing in background, hand to face visible
Seen happening
  • Several people gather around Tommy, who is lying on a bench, while Thornton kneels beside him. [frame:2]
Also said
“It's only a flesh wound.” 11:13 · “I'm with you, Thornton.” 11:23
Seen
wooden bench, cowboy hats, gun belt, period clothing
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and concerned; themes: injury, loyalty, Western town setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium and close shots, natural outdoor lighting, period Western costumes

A man named Tommy is injured in a street scene and is being attended to by others who decide to take him to a doctor. One person addresses another as Thornton, affirming loyalty.

“All right, Tommy.” 11:01 · “Relax, buddy.” 11:05 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 10:59 (passage 10:56–11:31); US record: No renewal found

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