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Great Guy · Beat 109 · permalink

Private office

32:42–33:01 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 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 32:4432:44Frame at 32:5032:50Frame at 32:5432:54Frame at 32:5832:58

Play from 32:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 51 · shots 197–200. 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:2
People
  • man, middle-aged, dark suit, patterned tie, white flower boutonniere, mustache visible, audible
  • man, middle-aged, dark suit, seated at desk, holding telephone receiver visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit speaks with a serious expression. [frame:1]
  • A man stands over another man seated at a desk with a telephone. [frame:2]
  • The standing man speaks with an intense expression. [frame:3]
  • The seated man looks up and smiles slightly. [frame:4]
Also said
“I can't take it at this time.” 32:52 · “Hello.” 33:00
Seen
telephone, desk, suit, boutonniere, chair
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and formal; themes: professional negotiation, refusal, formal address; style notes: medium close-ups and two-shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal attire and decor suggest a studio production

A man in a suit speaks while another man sits at a desk; dialogue suggests a refusal or negotiation over a position. The setting is an interior room with formal furnishings.

“Levitin?” 32:43 · “Very, very grateful.” 32:50 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 32:44 (passage 32:42–33:01); US record: No renewal found

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