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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 5 · permalink

Town square

1:29–2:11 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; 6 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 1:311:31Frame at 1:401:40Frame at 1:521:52Frame at 2:022:02

Play from 1:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 4 · shots 6–10. 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:3
People
  • man in cowboy hat and shirt, visible in frame 1 and 4 visible
  • man in cowboy hat and patterned shirt, visible in frame 1 and 4 visible
  • Tony (named at t:1:55): man in cowboy hat and vest, visible in frame 1 and 4 visible
  • man in cowboy hat, seen from behind at a window, frame 2 visible
  • Tucson (named at t:1:58): man in cowboy hat, visible in frame 4, on horseback visible
  • Branson (named at t:1:30): man referred to as 'Mr. Branson' in dialogue mentioned
Also said
“You and Tucson here head back to the ranch. I'll take the check and deposit foreclosing time today.” 1:58 · “Forty-three hundred dollars is a lot of dinero for one guy to be packing around. Yeah, especially him. The last time he went to prospect, he fell in with evil companions.” 2:06
Seen
cowboy hats [frame:1], horses [frame:4], window with landscape view [frame:2], dirt road through town [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and pragmatic; themes: western frontier, financial risk, trust and responsibility; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots of characters in cowboy attire, outdoor town setting, natural lighting

Three men in cowboy attire are seen in conversation and on horseback, discussing a financial transaction involving a check and a trip to Prospect. One man is assigned to take the check to deposit it, while the others are told to return to the ranch.

“We'll be seeing you again next spring with another herd. That's the idea. I'm always glad to do business with three messengers. So long, Mr. Branson.” 1:30 · “You know, it's too bad there isn't a bank in Nemesis.” 1:49 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 1:31 (passage 1:29–2:11); US record: No renewal found

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