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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 67 · permalink

Private office

17:57–18:25 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 18:0218:02Frame at 18:0918:09Frame at 18:1418:14Frame at 18:2118:21

Play from 17:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 132–135. 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
  • Father Moore (named at t:18:22): older man, white hair, dark suit, bow tie visible, audible
  • woman, dark hair, dark dress with lace, pearl necklace visible
  • Tucson (named at t:18:12): man, cowboy hat, light shirt, dark pants, gun belt visible, audible
  • man, cowboy hat, patterned shirt, dark vest, gun belt visible
Seen happening
  • Four people stand in a room; one man in a suit speaks to others. [frame:1]
  • Three men in cowboy hats converse; one gestures with his hand. [frame:2]
  • An older man and a woman stand close together, looking concerned. [frame:3]
  • The group of four stands together, facing each other in discussion. [frame:4]
Also said
“It means ruin.” 18:21 · “Father Moore.” 18:22
Seen
wooden desk, gun belt, cowboy hats, pearl necklace, wooden chair
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and concerned; themes: financial crisis, community responsibility, moral dilemma; style notes: medium shots, static camera, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s Westerns, wooden interior setting

A group of four people, including a man in a suit and a woman in a dark dress, are gathered in a wooden-paneled room. One man speaks about financial ruin affecting the town, and another is addressed as 'Tucson'.

“They sure cleaned you out, Mr. Thornton.” 18:03 · “There's nothing much can be done, Tucson.” 18:12 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 18:02 (passage 17:57–18:25); US record: No renewal found

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