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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 117 · permalink

Theatre

28:25–28:27 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 28:2628:26

Play from 28:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 64 · shots 245–245. 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
Seen happening
  • A crowd watches a boxing match in a ring. [frame:1]
Seen
boxing ring [frame:1], banner reading 'THUNDERBOLT O'BRIEN vs WILDMAN KAMATSKI HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WEST' [frame:1], crowd of spectators [frame:1]
On screen
THUNDERBOLT O'BRIEN vs WILDMAN KAMATSKI HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WEST
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense anticipation; themes: sports spectacle, public entertainment; style notes: medium wide shot, high-contrast black-and-white lighting focused on the ring, crowd in silhouette

A crowd watches a boxing match in a ring under a banner reading 'THUNDERBOLT O'BRIEN vs WILDMAN KAMATSKI' for the 'HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WEST'. No dialogue is present in this beat.

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 28:26 (passage 28:25–28:27); US record: No renewal found

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