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Great Guy · Beat 139 · permalink

Private office

43:12–43:16 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 43:1443:14

Play from 43:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 67 · shots 255–255. 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 and fedora, seen from side, facing right visible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, back to camera, facing left visible
  • man in light-colored suit, holding a small object, facing left visible
  • man in dark suit, partially visible behind p3, looking forward visible
Seen
fedora hat [frame:1], suit [frame:1], small object held by p3 [frame:1], heavy drapery [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, formal attire, interior drama; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast lighting, formal composition with figures arranged in depth

A group of men in suits and hats stand in an interior space with heavy drapery; one man holds a small object. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 43:14 (passage 43:12–43:16); US record: No renewal found

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