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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 150 · permalink

Boxing ring

31:45–32:08 Registered 1936

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; 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 31:4731:47Frame at 31:5231:52Frame at 31:5331:53Frame at 32:0332:03

Play from 31:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 91 · shots 301–306. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
boxing_ring (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man in dark suit and hat, gesturing with hand visible
  • Jake (named at t:31:47): man in light shirt and cowboy hat, seated at table visible
  • boxer in gloves and shorts, in ring visible
  • man in patterned shirt and cowboy hat, standing over seated man visible
  • crowd of men in hats and suits, watching ring visible
Seen happening
  • A man gestures toward another man near a table while speaking about bank money. [frame:1]
  • A boxer stands in a ring in a defensive stance. [frame:2]
  • Two boxers fight in a ring surrounded by spectators. [frame:3]
  • A man in a cowboy hat sits at a checkered tablecloth while another man leans over him. [frame:4]
Also said
“Bank money? Yeah, I wonder how he got a hold of that.” 31:50 · “Oh, no, give up. Come on, give up.” 31:50
Seen
boxing gloves, boxing ring ropes, checkered tablecloth, cowboy hats, sack (mentioned)
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: gambling, confrontation, sports; style notes: black-and-white, medium and wide shots, studio lighting, period costumes

A man named Jake is confronted about possessing bank money near a bookie's table, while a boxing match is shown in separate shots. The scene includes a crowd and a man in a cowboy hat seated at a checkered tablecloth.

“Hey, Jake, what about the bat?” 31:47 · “Hey, this old Jake goes to the bookie's table, and he's got a sack of the bank money.” 31:50 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 31:47 (passage 31:45–32:08); US record: No renewal found

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