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Great Guy · Beat 131 · permalink

Private office

40:35–40:49 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; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 40:3940:39Frame at 40:4540:45

Play from 40:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 61 · shots 244–245. 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, light shirt, tie, short hair, medium build visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, light shirt, tie, short hair, medium build, standing behind p1 visible
Seen happening
  • A man holds a telephone receiver to his ear while another man stands behind him gesturing. [frame:1]
  • The man who was on the phone now stands at a desk holding a hat, while the other man walks away. [frame:2]
Also said
“I gotta be going, Kenny.” 40:44 · “An appointment. You go through with that kid and you wish you never were born.” 40:45
Seen
telephone [frame:1], desk [frame:1, frame:2], hat [frame:2], lamp [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: threat, confrontation, business dealings; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast lighting, static camera, period office decor

Two men are in an office; one is on the phone while the other gestures toward him. A threat is spoken about an appointment and a kid. No names are established from the dialogue or visuals.

“Colet's your supply. She never delivered.” 40:37 · “Send a couple men over to my office in about 20 minutes. You wouldn't dare.” 40:40 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 40:39 (passage 40:35–40:49); US record: No renewal found

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