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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 126 · permalink

Theatre

28:49–29:06 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 8 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.

Frame at 28:5028:50Frame at 28:5428:54Frame at 28:5828:58Frame at 29:0429:04

Play from 28:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 73 · shots 254–260. 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
  • man in boxing gloves and shorts, standing in ring visible
  • man in light shirt and dark pants, seated in ring corner visible
  • hand with patterned sleeve holding torn paper visible
  • woman in patterned dress holding white towel, standing visible
  • man in checkered suit, tie, and light hat, seated visible
  • man in plaid shirt and dark tie, leaning toward p5 visible
  • man in dark suit and bow tie, standing behind p5 visible
  • audience members, mostly men in hats, surrounding ring visible
Seen happening
  • A boxing match is in progress with spectators around the ring. [frame:1]
  • A hand holds a torn piece of paper against a checkered background. [frame:2]
  • A woman in a patterned dress holds a towel near a seated man. [frame:3]
  • A man in a plaid shirt leans toward a seated man in a checkered suit and hat. [frame:4]
Seen
boxing ring, boxing gloves, torn paper, white towel, checkered suit and hat, plaid shirt
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and dramatic; themes: sports competition, personal drama, spectator culture; style notes: black-and-white, medium and close shots, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s cinema, staged composition

A boxing match is underway in a ring surrounded by spectators; a hand holds a torn piece of paper, and a woman in a patterned dress holds a towel near a seated man. A man in a checkered suit and hat is spoken to by another man in a plaid shirt.

“Oh, no.” 28:56 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 28:50 (passage 28:49–29:06); US record: No renewal found

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