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Great Guy · Beat 159 · permalink

Ballroom

52:04–52:21 Released 1936; registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 52:1352:13

Play from 52:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 74 · shots 290–290. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ballroom (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman with blonde curled hair, wearing a dark strapless dress and a bracelet visible
  • man with receding hairline, wearing a tuxedo with bow tie visible
  • man with dark hair and mustache, wearing a tuxedo visible
  • man with dark hair, wearing a tuxedo, hand near his mouth visible
Seen
tuxedo [frame:1], bow tie [frame:1], bracelet [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and social; themes: social gathering, formal dance; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, black-and-white, centered on dancing couple

A man and a woman in formal wear are dancing closely in a crowded room. Other guests in evening attire are visible in the background, suggesting a social gathering.

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 52:13 (passage 52:04–52:21); US record: No renewal found

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