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Great Guy · Beat 164 · permalink

Ballroom

53:50–53:55 Released 1936; registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 53:5353:53

Play from 53:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 77 · shots 296–296. 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
  • man in dark suit and white pocket square, middle-aged, medium build visible
  • woman with blonde hair, wearing dark dress, young adult visible
  • multiple other dancers in formal wear, background visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman dance closely in a crowded room. [frame:1]
Seen
formal attire [frame:1], pocket square [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, social; themes: social gathering, dance, formal attire; style notes: medium shot, black and white, studio lighting, centered framing on couple

A man and a woman are dancing closely in a crowded room. The transcript contains the word 'Amen' at 53:50.

“Amen.” 53:50 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 53:53 (passage 53:50–53:55); US record: No renewal found

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