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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 110 · permalink

Theatre

27:06–27:32 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 9 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 27:0927:09Frame at 27:1727:17Frame at 27:2527:25Frame at 27:3127:31

Play from 27:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 60 · shots 222–229. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
theatre (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in cowboy hat and dark shirt, visible in crowd visible
  • man in striped shirt and bow tie, seated in crowd visible
  • man in dark suit and hat, standing in ring visible
  • man in light shirt, being struck in ring visible
  • woman in bonnet and dress, seated in crowd visible
  • man in plaid shirt, seated in crowd visible
  • man in suit, seated in crowd visible
  • Jake (named at t:27:19): man speaking off-screen audible
  • Peter (named at t:27:19): man speaking off-screen audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cowboy hat sits in the crowd watching the match. [frame:1]
  • A boxer in a light shirt is struck by an opponent in the ring. [frame:2]
  • Spectators in the crowd, including a woman in a bonnet, react with laughter. [frame:3]
  • A close-up shows a boxer’s face being struck. [frame:4]
Also said
“Peter, you've never had a dollar in your life.” 27:19
Seen
boxing ring [frame:2], cowboy hats [frame:1], striped shirt [frame:1], bonnet [frame:3], sign reading 'HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD' [frame:2]
On screen
HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and theatrical; themes: sports spectacle, class commentary, conflict; style notes: black-and-white, medium and close-up shots, high-contrast lighting, staged crowd reactions

A boxing match is underway in a crowded venue; spectators react as a fighter is struck. A man named Jake is told to leave, and another character, Peter, is mentioned in a line about never having had money.

“Go away, Jake, and don't bother me.” 27:19 · “But I'm going to bet I got hurt tomorrow.” 27:19 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 27:09 (passage 27:06–27:32); US record: No renewal found

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