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Great Guy · Beat 112 · permalink

Private office

33:37–33:47 Released 1936; registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 33:4233:42

Play from 33:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 53 · shots 204–204. 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, middle-aged, wearing a dark suit, white shirt, patterned tie, and pocket square visible
Seen happening
  • The man at the desk sighs. [frame:1]
Seen
desk [frame:1], suit [frame:1], tie [frame:1], pocket square [frame:1], framed pictures on wall [frame:1], sculpture on side table [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or weary; themes: authority, communication, bureaucracy; style notes: medium close-up, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal composition

A man in a suit sits at a desk in an office, looking off-camera while a voice requests to call Abel Canning. The man sighs after the request.

“Get Abel Canning on the phone.” 33:38 · “*Sigh*” 33:44 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 33:42 (passage 33:37–33:47); US record: No renewal found

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