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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 86 · permalink

Theatre

24:14–24:37 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 8 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 24:1924:19Frame at 24:2924:29Frame at 24:3624:36

Play from 24:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 179–181. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(theatre, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in plaid shirt and cowboy hat, visible in foreground visible
  • man in dark vest and white shirt, back to camera visible
  • man in light shirt and cowboy hat, visible in crowd visible
  • man in dark suit, visible in ring area visible
  • man in light shirt, visible near bar visible
  • man in dark vest, visible in crowd visible
  • man in cowboy hat, visible in crowd visible
  • man in light shirt, visible in crowd visible
Seen
boxing ring [frame:1], cowboy hats [frame:1], bar counter with bottles [frame:1], sign reading 'WILDMAN KAMATSKI' [frame:1], crowd of men [frame:2], ring ropes [frame:3], chairs around ring [frame:3], overhead lights [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and anticipatory; themes: gambling, sports betting, crowd dynamics, boxing culture; style notes: crowded medium shots, high-contrast lighting, static camera framing the ring and crowd

A crowd in a boxing venue places bets and watches a match; dialogue references betting and names Sam and Jake. The venue is crowded, with men in hats and a ring visible in the background.

“Who do you like, Sam? - Three dollars on a spin! Here's your money, here's mine. Branching always pays off. Who do you like, Sam? Who do you like?” 24:22 · “Betting heavy tonight, Jake? You bet I am. Who do you like, Jets? Who do you like? All right, place your bet. Hey, hey, Jets!” 24:29 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 24:19 (passage 24:14–24:37); US record: No renewal found

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