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Great Guy · Beat 119 · permalink

Private office

35:19–35:57 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 35:2435:24Frame at 35:2935:29Frame at 35:4135:41Frame at 35:5535:55

Play from 35:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 58 · shots 216–219. 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, older, wearing dark dress with white lace collar, hair up visible
  • Snoop (named at t:35:42): man, middle-aged, wearing light-colored flat cap, dark jacket, holding paper visible, audible
  • man, middle-aged, wearing dark fedora, suit, holding paper visible, audible
  • man, middle-aged, balding, wearing dark shirt, standing behind p3 visible
Seen happening
  • Four people stand together indoors, one holding a paper. [frame:1]
  • The group looks at a document held by one man. [frame:3]
Also said
“Not me, Snoop.” 35:42 · “I'm gonna give you a chance to think it over in a cage.” 35:45
Seen
paper/document [frame:1], flat cap [frame:1], fedora [frame:1], brick wall [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict over documentation, threats of legal consequence, power dynamics in a workplace; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, period costumes

A group of four people, including a woman and three men in hats, are gathered indoors discussing a discrepancy in delivered items; one man pressures another to sign a document while threatening him with jail.

“There seems to be a bit of a difference, Mrs. Ogilvy.” 35:22 · “I want you to sign this...” 35:40 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 35:24 (passage 35:19–35:57); US record: No renewal found

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