Boxing ring
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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 1:19:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 126 · shots 527–528. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- boxing_ring (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- bald man, wearing suspenders and a collared shirt, gripping another man's head visible
- man with dark hair, shirtless, lying back, appearing exhausted or injured visible
- man with dark hair, wearing a light shirt, standing behind p2 visible
- man wearing a fedora and dark coat, leaning over p2 visible
- Seen happening
- A man holds another man's head in a boxing ring. [frame:1]
- Three men surround a shirtless boxer in a ring. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “Well, a bell saved him. A bell saved him. If you'd taken him in the first round, there wouldn't have been no bells.” 79:41 · “This goes one more round, you'll pay, sweetheart, not me.” 79:46
- Seen
- boxing ring ropes [frame:1], fedora hat [frame:2], suspenders [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: boxing, financial stakes, conflict, sports drama; style notes: close-up framing on faces, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s studio films, static camera
A man in a boxing ring is being attended to by others while dialogue discusses the cost and outcome of a fight. The scene includes a man holding the boxer's head and another man in a hat leaning over him.
“It's hard to make a great fellow out of you if that guy don't kill you.” 79:32 · “This is only costing us 1,500 bucks. Do you think that's hay, you dope?” 79:38 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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