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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 73 · permalink

Bank

20:31–20:50 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; 6 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 20:3320:33Frame at 20:3620:36Frame at 20:4320:43

Play from 20:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 38 · shots 149–151. 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
People
  • woman, wearing a dark hat, patterned blouse, and vest, Western-style attire visible
  • Mr. Joslin (named at t:20:45): man, wearing a dark suit and tie, clean-shaven visible, audible
  • man, wearing a patterned shirt and a sheriff's star, behind bars visible
  • man, wearing a cowboy hat and light shirt, standing with arms crossed visible
  • older man, white hair, seated behind counter visible
  • woman, behind counter, smiling visible
Seen happening
  • A woman and a man in a suit stand at a bank counter while a man in a sheriff's star is behind bars. [frame:1]
  • The man in the suit gestures while speaking to the woman at the counter. [frame:3]
Also said
“Oh, that's a good idea, Lullaby. You should have thought of it sooner.” 20:42 · “We'll just make out this deposit slip, Mr. Joslin. We'll be glad to take care of you.” 20:45
Seen
bank counter [frame:1], jail bars [frame:1], sheriff's star [frame:2], cowboy hat [frame:1], deposit slip [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and transactional; themes: banking, Western genre, character interaction; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast lighting, static camera, period Western costumes

A man in a suit speaks with a woman in Western attire at a bank counter while a man in a sheriff's star is visible behind bars. Another man in a cowboy hat stands nearby. A deposit slip is being prepared.

“Thanks, Mr. Barrington. I'm sure grateful to you.” 20:32 · “I just won't need you anymore now. Oh, I'm in no hurry. I'll wait for you.” 20:35 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 20:33 (passage 20:31–20:50); US record: No renewal found

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