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Private office

6:16–6:41 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; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 6:206:20Frame at 6:286:28Frame at 6:366:36

Play from 6:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 8 · shots 27–29. 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, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • woman, dark hair styled in a 1930s bob, wearing a dark suit with white collar, seated at a desk visible, audible
  • Tim (named at t:6:36): man, light hair, wearing a dark suit and tie, standing near a staircase and later at a reception desk visible, audible
  • woman, blonde, wearing a white uniform with a nurse-like cap, seated behind a reception desk visible
Seen happening
  • A woman is talking on the phone at a desk. [frame:1]
  • A man is talking on the phone near a staircase. [frame:2]
  • The man hangs up the phone at a reception desk and speaks to a woman in uniform. [frame:3]
Also said
“Thank you, Tim. I'm on your phone.” 6:36 · “Red Hot.” 6:40
Seen
telephone, telephone, telephone, reception desk, flowers in vase, staircase, papers on desk
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and hurried; themes: professional obligation, miscommunication, telephone as mediator; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, period decor

A woman and a man are shown on the phone in separate shots, followed by a scene at a reception desk where the man hangs up and speaks to a woman in a nurse-like uniform. The transcript includes dialogue about lateness and a show, with a final line referencing 'Red Hot.'

“What? Me, me?” 6:16 · “I'm usually the one that has to stand around waiting 20 minutes for you to show up. All right, all right, all right, all right, all right.” 6:21 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 6:20 (passage 6:16–6:41); US record: No renewal found

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