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Great Guy · Beat 115 · permalink

Shop

34:28–34:44 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). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 34:3334:33Frame at 34:3934:39Frame at 34:4234:42

Play from 34:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 56 · shots 210–212. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
shop (shop, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in dark coat and fedora, medium build, appears middle-aged visible, audible
  • Joe (named at t:34:38): man in dark coat and fedora, medium build, appears middle-aged visible, audible
  • man in cap and dark jacket, older, carrying tray of goods visible
Seen happening
  • Two men in hats stand close, one holding papers. [frame:1]
  • A man in a cap walks through a doorway carrying a tray of goods. [frame:2]
  • Two men in hats stand side by side, one looking toward the camera. [frame:3]
Also said
“Yes, I have a dotted line.” 34:40
Seen
papers [frame:1], tray with goods [frame:2], fedora hats [frame:1, frame:3], cap [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or transactional; themes: negotiation, departure, everyday commerce; style notes: medium close-ups and medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static camera

Two men in hats converse while one holds papers; another man carries a tray of goods through a doorway. A third man in a cap is visible in the background. One man says he is leaving, and another acknowledges a dotted line.

“That's everything.” 34:29 · “I'm going, Joe.” 34:38 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 34:33 (passage 34:28–34:44); US record: No renewal found

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