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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 169 · permalink

Theatre

33:03–33:12 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 33:0533:05Frame at 33:1033:10

Play from 33:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 104 · shots 328–329. 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 dark suit, medium build, visible in profile visible, audible
  • person in hat, partially obscured, facing p1 visible
  • crowd of men in hats, seated, watching ring visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit speaks to another person near a doorway. [frame:1]
  • A crowd watches a boxing ring with a mounted deer head and banners. [frame:1]
Seen
boxing ring [frame:1], mounted deer head [frame:1], chandelier-style light fixture [frame:1], banners with text [frame:1], doorway [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: instruction under threat, public spectacle, hidden tension; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, high-contrast lighting, staged interior

A man in a suit speaks to another person near a doorway while a crowd watches a boxing ring in the background. The speaker gives instructions about turning off gas and dropping a light if a shot is heard.

“Now listen, if you hear me fire a shot, you turn off that gas and drop that center light.” 33:06 · “Right.” 33:11 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 33:05 (passage 33:03–33:12); US record: No renewal found

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