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Great Guy · Beat 134 · permalink

Newsroom

41:49–42:38 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; 3 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 42:1442:14

Play from 41:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 63 · shots 248–248. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
newsroom (newsroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • unseen, voice only audible
  • Mike (named at t:42:06): unseen, voice only audible
  • Johnny K. (named at t:42:35): unseen, voice only audible
Also said
“Thanks, Mike.” 42:06 · “Ask Johnny K. to send down all the papers on the canning case right away.” 42:35
Seen
printing press [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and procedural; themes: media, legal procedure, communication; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up implied by dialogue focus, industrial lighting on press

A person speaks on the phone in an office setting, requesting documents related to a legal case. A printing press is shown in operation, suggesting a newspaper or publishing context.

“You won't have to forgive me for anything, baby.” 41:49 · “That story?” 42:02 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 42:14 (passage 41:49–42:38); US record: No renewal found

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