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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 87 · permalink

Boxing ring

24:37–24:58 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; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 24:3924:39Frame at 24:4724:47Frame at 24:5624:56

Play from 24:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 44 · shots 182–184. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
boxing_ring (other, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in dark suit and bow tie, standing in ring, gesturing visible, audible
  • man in cowboy hat and patterned shirt, standing upright in ring visible
  • man in cowboy hat, leaning over another man in ring visible
  • man bent forward in ring, wearing dark shirt with badge visible
  • crowd of men and women in hats and period clothing, seated visible
Seen happening
  • Crowd watches boxing ring from seats. [frame:1]
  • Announcer in suit gestures toward ring while speaking. [frame:2]
  • Two men in cowboy hats stand in ring, one leaning over another. [frame:3]
Also said
“198 pounds!” 24:50 · “Tucson Smith!” 24:53
Seen
boxing ring ropes, sign reading 'HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WEST', cowboy hats, microphone, poster of woman in boxing pose
On screen
HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WEST
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: anticipatory; themes: boxing, Western, public spectacle; style notes: medium shots of ring and crowd, high-contrast lighting, static camera

A crowd watches a boxing ring where a man in a suit announces a fighter named Tucson Smith. Two men in cowboy hats stand in the ring, one leaning over another who is bent forward.

“Now, main effect!” 24:37 · “the plied and mystery man of the West!” 24:44 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 24:39 (passage 24:37–24:58); US record: No renewal found

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