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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 76 · permalink

Jail

21:03–21:16 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 21:0921:09

Play from 21:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 154–154. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
jail (jail, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing dark cowboy hat and patterned shirt, facing right visible
  • man wearing light cowboy hat and vest, facing left, leaning on bars visible
  • man visible behind jail bars, partially obscured visible
  • Mr. Withers (named at t:21:03): unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand facing each other near jail bars while a third man is visible behind them. [frame:1]
Also said
“Don't worry, I'll stall him.” 21:13
Seen
jail bars [frame:1], cowboy hats [frame:1], patterned shirt [frame:1], vest [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, financial power, imprisonment; style notes: medium shot, high contrast lighting, static framing

Two men in cowboy hats speak near a jail cell while a third man is visible inside. One man says he will stall someone named Mr. Withers, who is described as someone who never cashes a check for less than $500.

“It's Mr. Withers.” 21:03 · “Of all people to show up now... What's the matter with him? Smallpox? Worse. He never cashes a check for less than $500.” 21:04 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 21:09 (passage 21:03–21:16); US record: No renewal found

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