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Great Guy · Beat 107 · permalink

Private office

32:01–32:15 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; 3 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 32:0532:05Frame at 32:1132:11Frame at 32:1332:13

Play from 32:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 51 · shots 192–194. 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
  • man in dark suit, seated, holding a cup to his mouth visible
  • man in dark suit, seated at desk, gesturing with right hand visible
  • man in dark suit with white flower boutonniere, standing, mustache visible
Seen happening
  • Two men sit at a desk in an office; one drinks from a cup while the other gestures. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit gestures with his right hand while seated. [frame:2]
  • A man in a suit with a boutonniere stands and looks toward the desk. [frame:3]
Also said
“I described such a showing to your untiring effort.” 32:06 · “Superb.” 32:09
Seen
desk [frame:1], typewriter [frame:1], bust on pedestal [frame:1], framed portraits [frame:3], lamp [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and congratulatory; themes: professional recognition, authority, office hierarchy; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal composition with symmetrical framing

Two men in suits are seated at a desk in a formal office; one speaks while the other listens. A third man in a suit stands nearby, looking toward them.

“past year shows an increase of” 32:02 · “53% from the number of arrests.” 32:04 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 32:05 (passage 32:01–32:15); US record: No renewal found

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