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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 83 · permalink

Bank exterior

22:56–23:11 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 23:0323:03

Play from 22:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 43 · shots 171–171. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bank exterior (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark vest and patterned shirt, wearing a hat visible
  • Stoney (named at t:22:56): man in light shirt, cowboy hat, and bandana, wearing a gun belt visible, audible
  • Tucson (named at t:22:56): man in light shirt, cowboy hat, and bandana, wearing a gun belt visible, audible
Also said
“Hey, let me see that paper.” 23:03 · “Don't you trust me too, sir?” 23:08
Seen
bank sign, cowboy hats, gun belts
On screen
First National Bank
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: betting, trust, confrontation; style notes: medium shot, black-and-white, studio lighting, Western costume design

Three men in Western attire stand outside a bank; one is addressed as 'Stoney' and another as 'Tucson' in dialogue about a boxing bet. A man demands to see a paper, questioning trust.

“Here you are, Stoney. I'm betting I need to knock out Komatsky in the first round, Tucson.” 22:56 · “The odds is all in your favor.” 23:00 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 23:03 (passage 22:56–23:11); US record: No renewal found

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