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Ghost-Town Gold · Beat 90 · permalink

Theatre

25:24–26:00 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; 6 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 25:2825:28Frame at 25:3525:35Frame at 25:4825:48Frame at 25:5825:58

Play from 25:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 45 · shots 188–192. 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 cowboy hat, dark vest, patterned shirt, belt with large buckle visible, audible
  • man in light shirt and vest, standing near ring ropes visible
  • man in patterned robe, facing away, near ring visible
  • man in white trunks, standing in ring visible
  • man in white trunks, bending over in ring visible
  • spectators in hats and suits, seated at tables visible
Seen happening
  • Spectators watch a boxing ring with a banner reading 'THUNDERBOLT JEM WILDMAN KAMATSKI HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WEST'. [frame:1]
  • A man in a cowboy hat stands in the ring speaking, with another man behind him. [frame:2]
  • A group of men, including one in a robe, gather near the ring ropes. [frame:3]
  • Two boxers in white trunks are in the ring; one is bending over. [frame:4]
Also said
“No hitting below the belt!” 25:48 · “Everything else goes!” 25:51
Seen
boxing ring [frame:1], banner with text 'THUNDERBOLT JEM WILDMAN KAMATSKI HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WEST' [frame:1], cowboy hat [frame:2], patterned robe [frame:3], white boxing trunks [frame:4], tables with glasses [frame:1]
On screen
OF WEST CH UR
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and anticipatory; themes: boxing, rules and authority, spectacle; style notes: black-and-white, medium and wide shots, stage lighting focused on ring, audience in foreground

A boxing match is being prepared in a crowded hall with spectators seated at tables. A man in a cowboy hat enforces rules for the fight, including no hitting below the belt and breaking only on command.

“of the manly art, ourselves to bits. Now this here is a gentleman's class.” 25:24 · “Anybody caught through with a bottle will be cooked out and planted.” 25:30 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 25:28 (passage 25:24–26:00); US record: No renewal found

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