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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 79 · permalink

Jail

21:51–22:06 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Not yet checked. The automatic checks have not run on this beat. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 21:5421:54Frame at 21:5921:59Frame at 22:0422:04

Play from 21:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 42 · shots 159–161. 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
  • older man, wearing a top hat, glasses, dark suit, bow tie visible, audible
  • woman, dark curly hair, wearing a plaid shirt visible
  • man, wearing a cowboy hat and denim shirt visible
  • man, white hair, dark suit visible
  • man, behind bars, wearing a dark coat and bowler hat visible
Also said
“to industry,” 21:55 · “Not a chick, young lady?” 22:05
Seen
jail bars, top hat, bowler hat, plaid shirt, cowboy hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confinement, confrontation, social class; style notes: static medium shots, high contrast black and white, confined framing by bars

A man in a top hat speaks to others near jail bars; a woman in a plaid shirt is present. The transcript includes a statement about success and a question about a 'chick'.

“I am now convinced” 21:51 · “that I owe my success” 21:53 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 21:54 (passage 21:51–22:06); US record: No renewal found

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