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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 82 · permalink

Jail

22:35–22:56 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; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 22:3822:38Frame at 22:4022:40Frame at 22:4822:48

Play from 22:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 43 · shots 168–170. 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, frame:2
People
  • man wearing a dark hat and coat, holding a telephone receiver to his ear visible
  • man in a patterned shirt and dark hat, standing near p1 visible
  • man in a light cowboy hat and shirt, standing near jail bars, facing p2 visible
  • older man with white hair, visible behind jail bars visible
  • man in a cowboy hat and shirt, holding a paper, standing with p3 and p2 visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a coat holds a telephone receiver to his ear while standing in a jail corridor. [frame:1]
  • A man in a cowboy hat stands near jail bars, facing another man in a patterned shirt. [frame:2]
  • Three men in cowboy hats stand together; one holds a document. [frame:3]
Also said
“Sign that for me, will you? It's just a little legal matter.” 22:48 · “What'll I send?” 22:50
Seen
telephone receiver, jail bars, document, cowboy hats
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and procedural; themes: legal procedure, confinement, negotiation; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast lighting, static framing, period Western costume

A man in a hat and coat speaks on a telephone in a jail corridor while another man stands nearby; later, three men in cowboy hats converse near a jail cell and one holds a document. A line in the transcript asks for a signature on a legal matter.

“Hey, Tucson” 22:40 · “I'm going to go.” 22:44 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 22:38 (passage 22:35–22:56); US record: No renewal found

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