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Great Guy · Beat 117 · permalink

Sidewalk

34:50–35:12 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 35:0135:01

Play from 34:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 58 · shots 214–214. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • wears a light-colored flat cap and a dark jacket, young adult male visible
  • wears a dark fedora and overcoat, holding a paper, middle-aged male visible
  • balding, wears a dark coat, middle-aged male visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Three men stand together outdoors; one reads a paper. [frame:1]
Also said
“I want to see the boss in kind of the town.” 34:56 · “I'm out of here.” 35:09
Seen
flat cap [frame:1], fedora [frame:1], paper [frame:1], overcoat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, departure, urban nightlife; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast lighting, night exterior

Three men stand outdoors at night; one reads a paper while another speaks about seeing the boss. One man announces he is leaving.

“Hey, what?” 34:52 · “Straight on.” 34:54 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 35:01 (passage 34:50–35:12); US record: No renewal found

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