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36:00–36:03 Released 1936; registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 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 36:0136:01

Play from 36:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 60 · shots 221–221. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, wearing a light-colored flat cap, dark vest, and light jacket; holding a pen and writing visible
  • man wearing a dark fedora, suit, and tie; smiling slightly while looking at p1 visible
Seen
notebook [frame:1], pen [frame:1], flat cap [frame:1], fedora [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral to slightly engaged; themes: interaction, documentation; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up, studio lighting, two-shot composition

Two men are shown in a medium close-up; one writes in a notebook while the other looks on. The setting appears to be an interior space with no visible windows or clocks.

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 36:01 (passage 36:00–36:03); US record: No renewal found

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