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Great Guy · Beat 150 · permalink

Private office

46:21–46:55 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 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 46:3146:31Frame at 46:4446:44Frame at 46:4846:48Frame at 46:5346:53

Play from 46:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 72 · shots 269–272. 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, 30s-40s, dark suit, white shirt, tie, neat haircut visible, audible
  • Dolly (named at t:46:36): woman, 30s, dark dress, elaborate hat with feather, styled hair visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The woman holds up a bank book to the man. [frame:1]
  • The woman speaks with an angry expression. [frame:2]
  • The man looks downcast and serious. [frame:3]
  • The woman speaks emphatically to the man. [frame:4]
Also said
“You hurt me.” 46:43 · “I love you.” 46:50
Seen
bank book [frame:1], desk lamp [frame:1], framed map or chart [frame:1], woman's feathered hat [frame:2], man's suit and tie [frame:3], wall sign with partial text 'EIGHTS AND TREASURE' [frame:3], wooden door [frame:2], dark formal dress [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and emotionally charged; themes: romantic breakup, financial conflict, emotional confrontation; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, studio set design

A man and a woman have a heated argument in an office; she accuses him of arrogance and ends their relationship. He responds emotionally, declaring his love before she says goodbye.

“Dolly, you don't mean... I mean, we're through.” 46:36 · “Please listen, you've got to let me tell you the papers. I've listened to it now.” 46:38 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 46:31 (passage 46:21–46:55); US record: No renewal found

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