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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 69 · permalink

Bank

18:40–19:26 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; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 3 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 18:4618:46Frame at 18:5318:53Frame at 18:5618:56Frame at 19:1219:12

Play from 18:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 138–141. 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:4
People
  • Mr. Crabtree (named at t:18:43): man in striped suit, behind bars, mid-30s, average build visible, audible
  • man in cowboy hat and shirt, visible in frame 2 and 4, appears to be sheriff visible
  • man in bow tie and dark suit, older, white hair, visible in frame 2 visible
  • man in patterned shirt and cowboy hat, visible in frame 2 visible
  • woman in dark dress, visible in frame 2 visible
  • man in light striped suit, facing p1, visible in frame 3 and 4 visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a striped suit stands behind bars, speaking to someone off-screen. [frame:1]
  • A group including a sheriff, a woman, and two men stand together, looking concerned. [frame:2]
  • The man behind bars smiles at the man in the light striped suit. [frame:3]
  • The man in the light striped suit talks to the man behind bars while a sheriff looks on. [frame:4]
Also said
“Say, Mr. Crabtree.” 18:49 · “- Does anyone else know about this robbery? - No. You three are the only ones.” 19:16
Seen
prison bars [frame:1], sheriff's badge and gun belt [frame:2], bank counter [frame:4], checkbook [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: deception, economic pressure, secret keeping; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, high-contrast lighting, static camera

A man in a striped suit is seen behind bars, speaking with others including a sheriff and a man in a bow tie. The transcript reveals a conversation about buying a suit and a secret robbery that must be kept quiet to keep the bank open.

“That's a lot of money to be spending, Mr.” 18:41 · “Crab tree” 18:43 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 18:46 (passage 18:40–19:26); US record: No renewal found

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