Public Reel

Great Guy · Beat 118 · permalink

Street

35:12–35:19 Released 1936; registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 35:1535:15

Play from 35:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 58 · shots 215–215. 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
  • man wearing a flat cap and dark coat visible
  • man wearing a fedora, suit, and tie visible
Seen happening
  • Two men exchange papers. [frame:1]
Seen
flat cap [frame:1], fedora [frame:1], papers [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: exchange, suspicion; style notes: medium close-up, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film

Two men stand close, one in a flat cap and coat, the other in a fedora and suit, exchanging papers. A whistle is heard during the interaction.

“Whistling” 35:13 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.

Share

Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.

Frame from Great Guy (1936) at 35:15 (passage 35:12–35:19); US record: No renewal found

Permalink
always the current cut
Permalink to this version
warns if the beats are recut later
Card image
https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/Great_Guy.avi/b118.png
Figure for a newsletter or page
Cite