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Private office

32:15–32:42 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; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 32:2732:27Frame at 32:4032:40

Play from 32:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 51 · shots 195–196. 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
  • older man, wearing a dark suit, white shirt, tie, and boutonniere, standing visible, audible
  • younger man, wearing a suit and tie, seated, holding a hat, hair slicked back visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit stands and gestures while speaking to a seated man. [frame:1]
  • The seated man holds a hat and speaks, looking up. [frame:2]
Also said
“servicemen” 32:29 · “I advise you to accept.” 32:31
Seen
leather armchair [frame:1], hat [frame:2], suit with boutonniere [frame:1], wooden paneling [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and tense; themes: public service, age and duty, formal appointment; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, studio set with wood paneling

A man in a suit stands and speaks to another man seated in an office; the seated man responds while holding a hat. The transcript indicates an offer of appointment to a commission and a discussion about service to the Commonwealth.

“They're appointing you to the Governor's Tax Commission of Special Investments.” 32:17 · “It's very nice, Your Honor, but you see I... I was a much older man.” 32:25 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 32:27 (passage 32:15–32:42); US record: No renewal found

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