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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 49 · permalink

Private office

11:56–12:23 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 11:5911:59Frame at 12:0512:05Frame at 12:1112:11Frame at 12:2012:20

Play from 11:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 26 · shots 103–106. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and bow tie, holding papers, clean-shaven, mid-30s visible, audible
  • man in cowboy hat and vest with sheriff's star, older, heavyset visible
  • man in light-colored fedora and checkered suit, holding glass, mustache visible
  • man in dark hat and coat, standing behind p3, holding glass visible
  • man in dark hat, partially visible behind p2, holding glass visible
Seen happening
  • The man in the suit holds papers and addresses a group including a sheriff. [frame:1]
  • The sheriff listens intently to the man in the suit. [frame:2]
  • The man in the suit looks sternly at the sheriff while holding papers. [frame:3]
  • The group stands around a table with drinks and papers; one man exhales smoke. [frame:4]
Also said
“I'm building this town up with my flights. Putting it on the map.” 12:10 · “They're too dumb to realize that. Well, I guess the town will manage to struggle along, Barrington.” 12:14
Seen
papers [frame:3], sheriff's star [frame:2], glasses with drinks [frame:1], smoke [frame:4], wood-paneled walls [frame:1], framed picture [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: conflict of authority, economic development vs. local order, individual ambition; style notes: medium close-ups and two-shots in a dimly lit interior; high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s B-westerns; static camera

A man in a suit confronts a group including a sheriff in a wood-paneled room; he holds papers and speaks about building the town with his flights while others listen or react. The transcript indicates a dispute over a business and an order backed by town citizens.

“This is Summer Thorne's work.” 11:56 · “I've built up a business here and I'm going to keep it open.” 12:00 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 11:59 (passage 11:56–12:23); US record: No renewal found

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