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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 84 · permalink

Shop

23:11–23:51 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; 3 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 23:1623:16Frame at 23:2423:24Frame at 23:3323:33Frame at 23:4523:45

Play from 23:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 43 · shots 172–175. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(shop, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark cowboy hat and patterned shirt, facing right visible
  • man in light cowboy hat and leather vest, facing left visible
  • Tucson (named at t:23:11): man in light cowboy hat and checkered shirt, holding paper, facing left visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Three men stand facing each other outside a bank. [frame:1]
  • One man grips another's neck while speaking. [frame:2]
  • The men continue their conversation, with one holding a paper. [frame:3]
  • The man in the checkered shirt speaks to the others. [frame:4]
Also said
“I'll put something in your face if you don't give me that paper.” 23:25 · “I figured that if you beat Komatsky tonight, you could save Thornton's neck by winning enough money to take care of his payroll.” 23:45
Seen
National Bank Inspector sign, paper, cowboy hats, leather vest, checkered shirt
On screen
NATIONAL BANK INSPECTOR
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: negotiation, financial pressure, cowboy culture; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static framing

Three men in cowboy attire converse outside a building with a sign reading 'NATIONAL BANK INSPECTOR'. One man pressures another to fight an opponent named Komatsky, citing financial stakes for someone named Thornton, before they agree to leave for the ranch.

“Now look, Tucson, the champ just walked out on Barrington.” 23:11 · “I signed you to fight Kamatsky.” 23:14 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 23:16 (passage 23:11–23:51); US record: No renewal found

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