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Great Guy · Beat 156 · permalink

Private office

50:06–50:18 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). 1 name 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 50:1250:12

Play from 50:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 72 · shots 287–287. 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
  • seen from behind, wearing dark clothing, possibly a coat or suit, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • A person reaches up toward a shelf. [frame:1]
Seen
shelf [frame:1], bottles [frame:1], patterned wallpaper [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or secretive; themes: concealment, private action; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing from behind, black-and-white film stock

A person is seen from behind, reaching up toward a shelf in a dimly lit room with patterned wallpaper. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 50:12 (passage 50:06–50:18); US record: No renewal found

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