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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 80 · permalink

Jail

22:06–22:31 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 22:0922:09Frame at 22:1422:14Frame at 22:2522:25Frame at 22:3022:30

Play from 22:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 42 · shots 162–166. 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
  • woman with dark curly hair, wearing a light-colored blouse, behind bars visible
  • man in dark hat and coat, back to camera, standing outside cell visible
  • man in light-colored cowboy hat and shirt, standing outside cell, hand on p2's shoulder visible
  • man in patterned shirt and dark hat, visible in profile visible
  • Mr. Withers (named at t:22:24): older man with white hair, visible in frame 4 visible
Seen happening
  • A woman is visible behind bars. [frame:1]
  • Three men stand outside a jail cell; one places a hand on another's shoulder. [frame:2]
  • The group of men remains outside the cell, viewed from behind. [frame:3]
  • A man in a dark hat speaks animatedly from inside the cell while others look on. [frame:4]
Also said
“And I insist on having it...” 22:13 · “and clerical incompetency. Of course, certainly, Mr. Withers.” 22:24
Seen
jail bars [frame:1], cowboy hat [frame:2], dark hat [frame:2], patterned shirt [frame:2], plaid shirt [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confinement, conflict, authority vs. individual; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static framing, high contrast lighting emphasizing bars and faces

A woman is seen behind bars while men in hats stand outside the cell; one man speaks about placing $1,000 in cash despite objections. The scene occurs in a jail setting with visible bars and multiple characters interacting near the cell.

“A departure to slip.” 22:06 · “I have here $1,000 in cash” 22:08 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 22:09 (passage 22:06–22:31); US record: No renewal found

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