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Great Guy · Beat 127 · permalink

Living room

39:08–39:24 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; 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 39:1639:16

Play from 39:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 61 · shots 234–234. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and tie, holding papers, standing near piano visible, audible
  • Mr. Canning (named at t:39:12): man in suit and fedora, standing near doorway visible, audible
Also said
“Exactly.” 39:16 · “His Honor, the mayor, we played golf yesterday.” 39:20
Seen
piano, armchair, fedora hat, papers
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and conversational; themes: social interaction, political reference; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, static framing, period costume

Two men in suits converse in an interior room with a piano and armchair; one mentions playing golf with the mayor. No names are visually identifiable, and no time of day or period is established.

“I don't want to hold you up, Mr. Canning, but...” 39:12 · “Not at all. Glad to have a chat with you.” 39:14 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 39:16 (passage 39:08–39:24); US record: No renewal found

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