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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 48 · permalink

Private office

11:40–11:56 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 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 11:4511:45Frame at 11:5111:51Frame at 11:5411:54

Play from 11:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 26 · shots 100–102. 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
  • Doc Barrington (named at t:11:47): man in dark suit, standing, facing others visible, audible
  • man in checkered suit and fedora, standing, holding glass visible
  • man in light suit and bowler hat, standing, smoking pipe visible
  • man in dark suit and hat, seated at desk visible
  • man in dark suit and hat, seated in background visible
Also said
“You'll find that they've abated your establishment.” 11:50 · “You've got 48 hours to close up and get out.” 11:53
Seen
desk [frame:1], bookshelves [frame:1], glass [frame:3], pipe [frame:3], hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: authority, confrontation, legal notice; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal framing

A man in a suit addresses three men in a room with a desk and bookshelves; one man is seated at the desk while others stand. The transcript indicates a notice to close an establishment within 48 hours is being delivered.

“You can't stop this fight.” 11:45 · “Quite is, Doc Barrington.” 11:47 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 11:45 (passage 11:40–11:56); US record: No renewal found

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