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Great Guy · Beat 151 · permalink

Police station

46:55–47:23 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; 7 names 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 47:0747:07Frame at 47:2047:20Frame at 47:2247:22

Play from 46:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 72 · shots 273–275. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
police_station (police station, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man in dark suit, white shirt, pocket square, slicked hair visible
  • man in light shirt, mugshot profile, number 15287 visible visible
  • man in light shirt, mugshot front, number 19887 visible visible
  • Pat (named at t:47:20): man seated at desk, light shirt, dark hair visible
  • man standing, vest, glasses, balding visible
  • man in police uniform, cap, badge visible
  • man seated, dark suit, back to camera visible
Seen happening
  • A police officer hands papers to a seated man. [frame:3]
Also said
“There's the guy, Pat.” 47:20 · “Feel like a boxcar.” 47:21
Seen
mugshots, police uniform, desk, papers, prison bars, wall sign: 'PRINT DEPT'
On screen
Evanville Va. / 15287 / 19887 / PRINT DEPT
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, confrontational; themes: law enforcement, identification, confrontation; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, studio lighting, static framing

A man in a suit is shown in a hallway, followed by mugshots of two men, then a scene in a police station where officers interact with a seated man. Spoken lines include warnings, rejections, and identification of a person named Pat.

“Watch out!” 46:55 · “I don't ever want to see you again.” 46:57 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 47:07 (passage 46:55–47:23); US record: No renewal found

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