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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 129 · permalink

Theatre

29:48–30:15 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; 5 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 29:4929:49Frame at 29:5529:55Frame at 30:0430:04Frame at 30:1130:11

Play from 29:48 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 73 · shots 269–276. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
theatre (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man in cowboy hat and checkered shirt, mid-30s, average build visible
  • woman with curly hair, wearing a dark dress with a bow tie, mid-30s visible
  • man in light-colored cowboy hat and plaid jacket, holding a small dog visible
  • boxer in white trunks, standing in ring visible
  • crowd of men in hats, mostly cowboy hats visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman in the crowd react with surprise or pain. [frame:1]
  • A man in a cowboy hat holds a small dog while watching the match. [frame:2]
  • Two boxers are in the ring under a banner that reads 'HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WEST'. [frame:3]
  • One boxer throws a punch while the crowd watches. [frame:4]
Seen
boxing ring [frame:3], banner reading 'HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WEST' [frame:3], small dog [frame:2], cowboy hats [frame:1]
On screen
HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WEST
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and dramatic; themes: sports, crowd reaction, western setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium and wide shots, high-contrast lighting focused on the ring

A crowd watches a boxing match in a ring; a man and a woman react with surprise or pain. The ring has a banner reading 'HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WEST'.

“Ow!” 30:06 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 29:49 (passage 29:48–30:15); US record: No renewal found

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