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Great Guy · Beat 133 · permalink

Private office

41:03–41:49 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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 41:2641:26

Play from 41:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 62 · shots 247–247. 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
  • Johnny (named at t:41:30): woman, dark dress, short dark hair, mid-20s to 30s, medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman stands in an office doorway, speaking with urgency. [frame:1]
Also said
“You don't know Mr. Canning like I do. He's a fine man.” 41:32 · “Well, don't do anything. I can't forgive you.” 41:46
Seen
dark dress [frame:1], doorway [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and pleading; themes: loyalty, moral conflict, power and corruption; style notes: medium close-up, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static framing

A woman in a dark dress speaks urgently in an interior setting, referencing a man named Mr. Canning and a blackmail scheme that could lead to jail. She insists Mr. Canning is a fine man who acted like a father to her.

“I'm terribly sorry, Mr. Kenny. Don't be sorry for me. It's the young man who will suffer.” 41:05 · “Public opinion will force him out of office.” 41:18 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 41:26 (passage 41:03–41:49); US record: No renewal found

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