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Private office

52:31–53:03 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; 2 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 52:4752:47

Play from 52:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 75 · shots 292–292. 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
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a light-colored dress with sparkles visible
  • Mr. Bravey (named at t:52:36): man, balding, wearing a dark suit and white shirt visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Mr. Bravey speaks to a woman while standing close to her. [frame:1]
Also said
“It's my guess that maybe you don't understand Johnny.” 52:54 · “This guy's in a gym.” 52:57
Seen
sparkly dress [frame:1], dark suit [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: social tension, misunderstanding, power dynamics; style notes: close two-shot, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, static framing

A man and a woman stand close in a dimly lit interior; the man speaks while the woman looks away. The transcript includes dialogue about a party, Johnny, and a gym, with the man referencing newspapers and 'beef on the hook.'

“Mr. Bravey, I'm not giving anyone.” 52:36 · “This is my party, and I want everybody to be happy, especially you and Johnny.” 52:44 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 52:47 (passage 52:31–53:03); US record: No renewal found

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