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Great Guy · Beat 124 · permalink

Private office

37:02–37:21 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 37:0737:07Frame at 37:1737:17

Play from 37:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 61 · shots 229–230. 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
  • man in fedora, suit, and tie, medium build, 30s-40s visible, audible
  • Kenny (named at t:37:13): man in dark suit, clean-shaven, 30s-40s, facing p1 visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand facing each other in conversation. [frame:1]
  • One man holds out a small object toward the other. [frame:2]
Also said
“Well, what's Kenny got to do with it?” 37:13 · “Here, Kenny, fix it for me.” 37:20
Seen
fedora hat [frame:1], suit and tie [frame:1], small object held in hand [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: deception, financial scheme, personal request; style notes: tight two-shot framing, high-contrast lighting, period costume, static camera

Two men in suits and hats converse in a dimly lit interior; one asks Kenny to fix something. The transcript includes fragmented dialogue about chasing boxes, needing cash, and passports.

“I'm going to be a sport. I'm going to be a chipper one.” 37:07 · “100 different names in 22 banks.” 37:10 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 37:07 (passage 37:02–37:21); US record: No renewal found

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