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Great Guy · Beat 126 · permalink

Private office

37:37–39:08 Released 1936; registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 37:4437:44Frame at 38:3038:30

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

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 61 · shots 232–233. 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 dark suit, fedora, holding hat, medium build visible
  • Red (named at t:37:37): man in dark suit, clean-shaven, smiling, medium build visible
  • Pete Riley (named at t:37:54): man in dark suit, light hair, gesturing, medium build visible
  • woman in dark dress, short dark hair, holding cigarette visible
Seen happening
  • Two men shake hands in a formal setting. [frame:1]
  • A man gestures while speaking to a woman holding a cigarette. [frame:2]
Also said
“This is Pete Riley.” 37:54 · “I'm going to make a speech too.” 38:09
Seen
fedora hat [frame:1], cigarette [frame:2], dark suit [frame:1], dark suit [frame:2], light-colored wall paneling [frame:2], dark coat [frame:2], white pocket square [frame:2], shadow on wall [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and conversational; themes: professional introductions, political or civic ambition, social gatherings; style notes: studio-lit medium shots, formal attire, static framing

Two men shake hands in a formal interior; a man speaks animatedly to a woman holding a cigarette. The dialogue references a speech, a radio appearance, and a job related to the mayor of Ontario. No names are established for the visible people beyond 'Red' and 'Pete Riley' mentioned in dialogue.

“No, nobody's gonna trip him up, Red.” 37:37 · “And Executive Secretary is my girl.” 37:46 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 37:44 (passage 37:37–39:08); US record: No renewal found

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