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Great Guy · Beat 146 · permalink

Private office

44:55–45:53 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 44:5844:58Frame at 45:2845:28

Play from 44:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 69 · shots 264–265. 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, seated, holding telephone receiver to ear, smiling slightly visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, seated at desk, head resting on hand, looking down, appears fatigued visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit is on the phone in an office. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit sits at a desk, resting his head on his hand, looking fatigued. [frame:2]
Also said
“It's five grand or I'll petal end of paper someplace else.” 45:20 · “As far as I'm concerned, you're in the police department.” 45:40
Seen
{'item': 'telephone receiver', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'desk', 'evidence': 'frame:2'} [frame:2], {'item': 'typewriter', 'evidence': 'frame:2'} [frame:2], {'item': 'vase with flowers', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'chair', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: corruption, threats, police involvement, personal exhaustion; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, classic studio composition

A man in a suit is on the phone in an office while another man sits at a desk looking fatigued. The transcript includes dialogue about taking chances, a threat involving five thousand dollars, and a reference to the police department.

“Not with me behind you.” 44:59 · “Because a pal of mine will tell the city prosecutor what the papers are.” 45:07 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 44:58 (passage 44:55–45:53); US record: No renewal found

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