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Great Guy · Beat 12 · permalink

Private office

5:57–6:16 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 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 5:585:58Frame at 6:006:00Frame at 6:066:06Frame at 6:136:13

Play from 5:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 8 · shots 23–26. 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, dark hair styled in waves, wearing dark suit with white collar, seated at desk visible, audible
  • Johnny (named at t:6:05): man, dark hair, wearing dark suit and tie, standing at phone booth or desk visible, audible
  • woman in white uniform, possibly nurse or assistant, visible in background visible
Seen happening
  • A woman is seated at a desk, writing while on the phone. [frame:1]
  • A man is standing at a phone, smiling. [frame:2]
  • The woman smiles while on the phone. [frame:3]
  • The man continues his call; a woman in white walks behind him. [frame:4]
Also said
“Of course, a great guy.” 6:08 · “Same place. Twelve thirty.” 6:12
Seen
telephone [frame:1], desk [frame:1], pen [frame:1], papers [frame:1], flower arrangement [frame:1], staircase [frame:2], wall sconce [frame:2], white uniform [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light, conversational, slightly flirtatious; themes: romantic comedy, miscommunication, social etiquette; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, studio lighting, formal attire, period telephone equipment

A woman and a man are on separate phone calls in what appears to be an office setting; the man mentions marrying someone and refers to himself as a 'great guy'. The conversation includes scheduling a meeting at 'twelve thirty'.

“When and with whom?” 5:57 · “Oh Johnny.” 6:05 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 5:58 (passage 5:57–6:16); US record: No renewal found

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