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Great Guy · Beat 154 · permalink

Police station

48:29–48:39 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). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 48:3048:30Frame at 48:3648:36

Play from 48:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 72 · shots 281–282. 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:2
People
  • Mike (named at t:48:34): man wearing fedora, suit, and tie, mid-adult, medium build visible, audible
  • man in police uniform with badge, mid-adult, heavier build visible
Seen happening
  • Mike speaks urgently while standing [frame:1]
  • Police officer sits behind desk, listening [frame:2]
Also said
“Go on.” 48:38
Seen
fedora, police uniform with badge, desk, file cabinets
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: authority, urgency, bureaucratic interaction; style notes: medium close-up shots, high-contrast lighting, static framing

A man in a fedora speaks urgently while another man in a police uniform listens from behind a desk. The transcript includes a reference to a 'lifer' and a command to tell a story.

“You can't do this to me, Helen. I tell you, I've got an important date.” 48:29 · “Mike, on the way down, tell Mr. Burton the story of the lifer that wanted to know what time it was.” 48:34 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 48:30 (passage 48:29–48:39); US record: No renewal found

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