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Great Guy · Beat 155 · permalink

Police station

48:39–50:06 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; 4 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 48:4248:42Frame at 48:4648:46Frame at 48:4948:49Frame at 49:2949:29

Play from 48:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 72 · shots 283–286. 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:1, frame:2, frame:4
People
  • man in dark uniform, seated at desk, middle-aged, stern expression visible
  • man in dark suit and tie, standing, younger, smiling visible
  • man in dark suit, fedora hat, entering room, medium build visible
  • hand holding small object, likely male visible
Seen happening
  • A man in uniform sits at a desk while another man in a suit stands beside him. [frame:1]
  • The standing man leans over the seated man’s desk, smiling. [frame:2]
  • A hand holds a small dark object over papers. [frame:3]
  • A man in a suit and hat enters a room with curtains and a chair. [frame:4]
Also said
“Take it easy now, Tony, and be sure to examine the drain pipe under the sink.” 48:55 · “I'll even look under his pillow.” 49:00
Seen
desk, uniform, file cabinet, small dark object (possibly key), curtains, fedora hat, armchair
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and procedural; themes: investigation, authority, search; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal framing typical of 1930s studio films

Two men in uniform are at a desk in an office; one stands while the other sits. A man in a suit and hat enters a room with curtains and a chair. A hand holds a small object, possibly a key, over papers.

“Can you see how much singing that canary did? Yeah, so I noticed.” 48:42 · “Well, anyway, we've got an apartment address. I'll let you get a quick frisk. No, let's come into that.” 48:44 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 48:42 (passage 48:39–50:06); US record: No renewal found

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