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Private office

30:29–30:52 Released 1936; registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 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 30:3530:35Frame at 30:4630:46

Play from 30:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 48 · shots 183–184. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Cave (named at t:30:31): man, dark suit, tie, short hair, standing visible, audible
  • woman, light-colored hair, seated, dark dress visible
  • woman, blonde hair, dark dress, standing, holding papers visible
  • man, dark suit, standing in background visible
Also said
“Oh, Mr. Kane.” 30:32 · “Timano is on his way now to the new bridge.” 30:48
Seen
desk, telephone, papers, office chair, door
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, slightly tense; themes: bureaucracy, waiting, official business; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, studio set

A man in a suit speaks with a seated woman in an office while another woman stands nearby; the dialogue references a mayor and waiting. A second shot shows the same office with three people, including a standing woman holding papers and a man in the background.

“I got a call from the mayor.” 30:30 · “The name is Cave.” 30:31 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 30:35 (passage 30:29–30:52); US record: No renewal found

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