Theatre
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
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Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 115 · shots 491–494. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- theatre (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- shirtless boxer, dark shorts, muscular build visible
- boxer in dark trunks, facing p1 visible
- referee in light shirt and dark pants, standing between boxers visible
- man in fedora and vest, seated in audience visible
- man in light sweater, seated in audience, looking forward visible
- Biscuit (named at t:76:43): unspecified, audible voice audible
- Seen happening
- Two boxers are fighting in a ring with a referee nearby. [frame:1]
- Audience members, including a man in a fedora, watch the match intently. [frame:2]
- The referee walks across the ring while the boxers continue fighting. [frame:3]
- A close-up shows one boxer delivering a punch to the other's face. [frame:4]
- Seen
- boxing ring [frame:1], ropes [frame:1], fedora hat [frame:2], referee shirt [frame:3]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: competition, audience engagement, instruction under pressure; style notes: tight framing on the ring and audience, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s boxing films, close-ups emphasize impact and reaction
Two boxers fight in a ring under a referee's watch, while spectators including a man in a fedora react. A voice directs someone named Biscuit to move to the front and left during the match.
“That's a cotton. Cotton, Chuck, cotton. We can't take it. Get in the front, Biscuit. Get in the front, Biscuit. The left, the left. The more left.” 76:43 · “Come on, come on!” 76:52 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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