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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 74 · permalink

Private office

20:50–20:58 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 20:5420:54

Play from 20:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 39 · shots 152–152. 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
  • man wearing a cowboy hat, light shirt, dark pants, and boots, seen from behind visible
  • man in dark suit and hat, standing in doorway visible
  • man lying on floor, wearing dark clothing, motionless visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cowboy hat walks toward a doorway where another man stands. [frame:1]
  • A man lies motionless on the floor in the foreground. [frame:1]
Seen
cowboy hat [frame:1], wooden door with glass panels [frame:1], metal bars on window [frame:1], wooden chair [frame:1], desk or counter [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, authority, suspense; style notes: medium shot, static camera, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s B-westerns, framing emphasizes depth and the doorway as a focal point

A man in a cowboy hat and shirt walks away from the camera toward a doorway where another man stands. A third man lies motionless on the floor in the foreground. The transcript contains a spoken line addressing someone named Barrington.

“Say, Barrington.” 20:52 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 20:54 (passage 20:50–20:58); US record: No renewal found

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