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Great Guy · Beat 138 · permalink

Hallway

43:04–43:12 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 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 43:0843:08

Play from 43:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 67 · shots 254–254. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
hallway (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and tie, walking toward camera, holding papers visible
  • man in fedora and overcoat, back to camera, carrying briefcase visible
  • woman in dark coat and hat, standing left visible
  • man in suit, standing right, partially obscured visible
Seen
chandelier [frame:1], checkered floor [frame:1], marble columns [frame:1], briefcase [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, tense; themes: authority, public space, movement through architecture; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, symmetrical framing with depth

A man in a suit walks toward the camera in a marble hallway while others stand or walk in the background. The setting appears to be a public building interior with checkered flooring and chandeliers.

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 43:08 (passage 43:04–43:12); US record: No renewal found

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