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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 64 · permalink

Private office

16:13–17:00 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name 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 16:3616:36Frame at 16:5916:59

Play from 16:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 35 · shots 127–128. 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:2
People
  • unseen, voice only audible
Seen happening
  • Papers are scattered on the floor near a doorway. [frame:2]
Seen
scattered papers [frame:2], doorway [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or urgent; themes: financial concern, summoning, disorder; style notes: low-key lighting, static framing, high contrast shadows

A character speaks about Mrs. Harris's overdraft and then calls out 'Serpina!' while papers lie on the floor near a doorway. The scene is dimly lit and appears to be indoors.

“I was just thinking about Mrs. Harris's overdraft. After all, it's only $51. I think we can carry her for a while.” 16:46 · “Serpina!” 16:58 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 16:36 (passage 16:13–17:00); US record: No renewal found

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