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Great Guy · Beat 14 · permalink

Private office

6:41–6:59 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 6:476:47Frame at 6:566:56

Play from 6:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 8 · shots 30–31. 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
  • Joel Green (named at t:6:47): man in dark suit, white shirt, tie, pocket square, slicked-back hair, medium build visible, audible
  • audience members, mostly men in suits, seated, backs to camera visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit stands at a podium addressing a seated audience. [frame:1]
  • The man in the suit speaks, looking slightly to his right. [frame:2]
Also said
“Now, you know, without my mentioning any names,” 6:50 · “Who put a man?” 6:52
Seen
wall-mounted clocks, map or chart on wall, podium or desk, seated audience chairs, blinds on window
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious, interrogative; themes: authority, substitution, accountability; style notes: medium close-up and wide shot, high-contrast black-and-white, studio lighting, formal framing

A man in a suit addresses a seated audience in a room with clocks and a map; he speaks about pinch-hitting for Joel Green and questions who put a man and why. The room appears to be an office or command center with wall-mounted clocks and a map.

“I'm just pinch hitting with Joel Green.” 6:47 · “while he's in that hospital.” 6:48 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 6:47 (passage 6:41–6:59); US record: No renewal found

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