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Great Guy · Beat 116 · permalink

Street

34:44–34:50 Released 1936; registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 5 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 34:4734:47

Play from 34:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 57 · shots 213–213. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • adult male, wearing fedora and dark coat, seen from back visible
  • child, wearing light-colored cap and jacket visible
  • child, wearing dark jacket, standing beside p2 visible
  • adult male, wearing dark coat, walking away from camera visible
  • figures near truck, indistinct, possibly loading or unloading visible
Seen
delivery truck, fedora, children's caps
On screen
TRUCK 82
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, observational; themes: urban life, childhood, everyday labor; style notes: medium shot, black-and-white, naturalistic lighting, street-level framing

A man in a fedora and coat stands on a street with two children, while other figures move near a delivery truck. A sign for a company is visible on the truck, and the scene appears to be outdoors during the day.

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 34:47 (passage 34:44–34:50); US record: No renewal found

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