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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 50 · permalink

Private office

12:23–12:50 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 12:2812:28Frame at 12:3312:33Frame at 12:4212:42

Play from 12:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 26 · shots 107–109. 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
  • man in checkered suit and bowler hat, seated at table visible
  • man in light suit and bowler hat, standing, holding glass visible
  • man in dark suit and bowler hat, seated, writing visible
  • man in dark suit and bowler hat, standing behind table visible
  • Komancki (named at t:12:48): man in dark suit, seated at table, back to camera visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man signs documents at a table while others stand around. [frame:1]
  • A man in a checkered suit and bowler hat looks down thoughtfully. [frame:2]
  • Several men gather around a table with drinks and papers. [frame:3]
Also said
“Come on, champ. We've got our guarantee money.” 12:38 · “Let's go, Komancki.” 12:48
Seen
glass of drink, documents on table, bowler hats, checkered suit, curtains
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense negotiation; themes: negotiation, sports promotion, legal paperwork; style notes: static medium shots, studio lighting, period costumes

Men in suits and hats gather around a table in an indoor setting; one signs documents while others speak about a fight and guarantee money. A man named Komancki is addressed directly in the dialogue.

“I've seen it happen before. Now wait a few days. I'll put this fight on.” 12:29 · “Nothing doing. We aren't gonna land to ourselves in no jug.” 12:34 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 12:28 (passage 12:23–12:50); US record: No renewal found

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