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Great Guy · Beat 113 · permalink

Private office

33:47–34:05 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; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 33:4933:49Frame at 33:5333:53Frame at 34:0034:00

Play from 33:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 54 · shots 205–207. 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 and tie, seated at a desk visible, audible
  • woman, dark hair styled in a bob, wearing a dark high-necked dress, seated beside the man visible
Seen happening
  • A man is holding a telephone receiver to his ear while seated at a desk. [frame:1]
  • The man continues speaking on the phone, looking slightly to his right. [frame:2]
  • The woman beside him is writing with a pen while looking down at paper. [frame:3]
Also said
“How about 18 holes in it?” 34:00 · “Right.” 34:03
Seen
telephone receiver, desk, pen, paper, vertical blinds, microphone
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: office power dynamics, planning a response to conflict, gender roles in professional settings; style notes: medium close-up shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal attire, static camera

Two people are in an office; one man is on the phone while a woman sits beside him taking notes. The transcript includes fragmented dialogue suggesting a discussion about someone described as an 'arrogant, swell-headed troublemaker' and a plan involving '18 holes'.

“arrogant, swell-headed troublemaker.” 33:51 · “We'll find a way.” 33:57 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 33:49 (passage 33:47–34:05); US record: No renewal found

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