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Great Guy · Beat 114 · permalink

Private office

34:05–34:28 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; 3 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 34:1334:13Frame at 34:2434:24

Play from 34:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 55 · shots 208–209. 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
  • woman, dark hair styled in a bun, wearing a dark suit and light blouse, seated at a desk visible
  • man, back to camera, wearing a dark suit, standing near a window visible
  • woman, light-colored wavy hair, wearing a dark dress with a patterned scarf at the neck, in front of a bookshelf visible
Seen happening
  • A woman speaks while seated at a desk as a man stands by a window. [frame:1]
  • A woman with wavy hair appears in a close-up in front of a bookshelf. [frame:2]
Also said
“I'm afraid you'll get to the butcher's steak.” 34:18 · “and use your services.” 34:16
Seen
desk, microphone, window with curtains, bookshelf
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious and tense; themes: business dispute, accusation of fraud, formal confrontation; style notes: static medium shots and close-ups, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal framing

A woman sits at a desk speaking while a man stands by a window; another woman appears in a close-up. The transcript includes dialogue about being cheated and deliveries falling short. No names are assigned to the individuals based on the transcript or frames.

“Mr. Kean, we were being cheated.” 34:21 · “for a long time the deliveries were always far short of what we were” 34:23 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 34:13 (passage 34:05–34:28); US record: No renewal found

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