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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 81 · permalink

Jail

22:31–22:35 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 22:3322:33

Play from 22:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 42 · shots 167–167. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(jail, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman with dark hair in braids, wearing a dark dress with a white collar visible
  • older man with white hair, wearing a dark suit and bow tie visible
Seen
jail bars [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or ironic; themes: confinement, business vs. circumstance; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up through bars, high contrast lighting

A woman and an older man are seen behind bars in a jail cell. The woman speaks about keeping open until closing time.

“Now we ought to be able to keep open till closing time.” 22:32 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 22:33 (passage 22:31–22:35); US record: No renewal found

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