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Great Guy · Beat 110 · permalink

Private office

33:01–33:31 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; 2 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 33:0733:07Frame at 33:2233:22

Play from 33:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 51 · shots 201–202. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Mr. Camp (named at t:33:11): man in dark suit, standing, mid-adult, medium build visible, audible
  • man in suit, seated at desk, mid-adult, receding hairline visible, audible
Also said
“The boys want me out of the way. That's a bold statement, Mr. Camp.” 33:11 · “Are you suggesting that Mr. Kavanaugh dictates the policy of this office?” 33:22
Seen
desk, chair, framed pictures on wall, fireplace mantel, vase on mantel
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: power struggle, institutional conflict, personal defiance; style notes: static medium shots, formal composition, high-contrast studio lighting, period-appropriate office decor

Two men in suits are in a formal office; one stands while the other sits at a desk. The standing man speaks about staying in the department and being aware that others want him removed, while the seated man questions whether another person dictates office policy.

“I'm staying in the department.” 33:03 · “And there's not going to be any fix.” 33:05 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 33:07 (passage 33:01–33:31); US record: No renewal found

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