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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 70 · permalink

Private office

19:26–20:00 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 19:3019:30Frame at 19:4619:46

Play from 19:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 37 · shots 142–143. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • man in dark suit, clean-shaven, medium build visible, audible
  • Buck (named at t:19:43): man in cowboy hat, patterned shirt, vest, holding a check visible, audible
  • Mr. Brangton (named at t:19:43): man in cowboy hat, patterned shirt, vest, standing beside p2 visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cowboy hat walks toward a barred teller cage inside a bank. [frame:1]
  • Two cowboys stand facing a man in a suit; one holds a check and speaks to him. [frame:2]
Also said
“Oh, lullaby, you still got that big check? Sure have.” 19:45 · “I'd like to get you to cash in for me, because I want to get back in that poker game.” 19:49
Seen
barred teller cage, safe, check, cowboy hats, vests
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but transactional; themes: bank robbery aftermath, poker game urgency, cowboy vs. banker; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast lighting, static camera, period Western costume

Two men in cowboy attire interact with a man in a suit inside a bank; one cowboy asks to cash a check to return to a poker game. The bank interior includes a barred teller cage and a safe, and dialogue confirms money was removed from the safe.

“Say, that bank's open and doing business. You sure you got all the money out of the safe? Yeah, we got every dollar.” 19:32 · “Howdy, Mr. Brangton. Howdy, Buck.” 19:43 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 19:30 (passage 19:26–20:00); US record: No renewal found

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