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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 66 · permalink

Bank

17:08–17:57 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 17:1917:19Frame at 17:4317:43

Play from 17:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 130–131. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bank (other, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • Mr. Thornton (named at t:17:28): older man, wearing a dark suit and bow tie, standing behind a counter visible, audible
  • Sabina (named at t:17:10): younger woman, wearing a dark patterned dress with a white collar, curly hair visible, audible
  • Dad (named at t:17:11): older man, wearing a dark suit, standing beside Sabina visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Sabina and her father stand at a bank counter speaking with Mr. Thornton. [frame:1]
  • Mr. Thornton speaks through bars at the counter while holding a hat; Sabina and her father look on. [frame:2]
Also said
“We'd like to deposit this check to our account and withdraw a little cash.” 17:36 · “I mean... We can't accept your attack. We haven't any money. The bank has been robbed.” 17:49
Seen
bank counter with bars, hat held by teller, check
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: financial crisis, family under pressure, institutional failure; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, barred counter emphasizes confinement

A man and a woman speak with a bank teller behind a barred counter; the teller explains the bank has been robbed and cannot process their transaction. The woman addresses the man as 'Dad' and suggests calling the sheriff.

“You're ruined, Sabina.” 17:10 · “Oh, please, Dad, you've got to buck up. We can call the sheriff. Perhaps he might be able to help us. Maybe.” 17:13 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 17:19 (passage 17:08–17:57); US record: No renewal found

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