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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 68 · permalink

Bank

18:25–18:40 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 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 18:3018:30Frame at 18:3718:37

Play from 18:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 136–137. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bank (private office, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man wearing cowboy hat and shirt, mid-adult, medium build visible, audible
  • man in suit behind bars, balding, mid-adult visible, audible
  • older man with white hair, wearing bow tie and patterned vest visible
  • woman partially visible behind p1, dark hair visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cowboy hat approaches a teller behind bars. [frame:1]
  • The teller, behind bars, looks at the cowboy hat man while speaking. [frame:2]
Also said
“The missus says I gotta buy a new suit of clothes.” 18:37
Seen
cowboy hat, bank teller cage bars, suit, bow tie
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral to slightly tense; themes: bank transaction, western attire, domestic obligation; style notes: medium close-up shots, high-contrast black and white, static camera, period costume

A man in a cowboy hat speaks to a teller behind bars while another man looks on. The dialogue suggests a transaction involving cashing a check and buying a suit.

“Well, how do you do? I'm the new teller. Oh, I'm the new teller.” 18:31 · “Can you cash this?” 18:35 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 18:30 (passage 18:25–18:40); US record: No renewal found

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