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Hospital

4:50–5:18 Released 1936; registered 1937

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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 4:564:56Frame at 5:055:05Frame at 5:135:13

Play from 4:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 7 · shots 19–21. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
hospital (hospital, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • John (named at t:4:57): man in dark suit, seated, middle-aged, medium build, smiling in frame:3 visible, audible
  • Mr. Vane (named at t:5:00): man lying in bed, head wrapped in bandages, partially covered by sheets, eyes open visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark suit sits beside a hospital bed and speaks to the patient. [frame:1]
  • The patient, with bandaged head, lies in bed and responds to the visitor. [frame:2]
  • The man in the suit smiles while continuing to speak to the patient. [frame:3]
Also said
“Remember now, keep your head on your shoulders and your fists in your pockets.” 5:03 · “And now tell me to be over her.” 5:17
Seen
hospital bed [frame:2], bandages on head [frame:2], dark suit [frame:1], bedside table with lamp [frame:1], sheets covering patient [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious and conversational; themes: trust, restraint, hospital recovery; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, typical of 1930s studio production

A man in a dark suit speaks to another man lying in a hospital bed with bandages; the dialogue suggests a conversation about trust and restraint. The setting remains a hospital room, with no change in location or time of day established.

“I know I can depend on you, John.” 4:57 · “Thanks, Mr. Vane. I'm glad you think so.” 5:00 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 Great Guy (1936) at 4:56 (passage 4:50–5:18); US record: No renewal found

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