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Great Guy · Beat 144 · permalink

Private office

44:23–44:29 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). 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 44:2644:26

Play from 44:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 69 · shots 261–261. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a fedora and dark coat, seated, middle-aged, average build visible
Seen happening
  • man holds telephone receiver to ear [frame:1]
Seen
telephone [frame:1], fedora [frame:1], desk [frame:1], papers [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious; themes: communication, isolation, professional setting; style notes: medium close-up, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film stock, focused on character's expression and action

A man in a fedora and dark coat is seated at a desk, holding a telephone receiver to his ear. Papers are visible on the desk, and he appears to be in a dimly lit interior space.

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 44:26 (passage 44:23–44:29); US record: No renewal found

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