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Great Guy · Beat 166 · permalink

Living room

53:58–54:18 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). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 54:0454:04Frame at 54:1454:14

Play from 53:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 79 · shots 298–299. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in tuxedo, smiling, mid-adult visible, audible
  • woman with blonde curled hair, wearing dark dress, mid-adult visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, seen from behind in frame 1, then leaning toward p2 in frame 2 visible
Seen happening
  • The man in the tuxedo gestures while speaking to the woman. [frame:1]
  • Another man leans toward the woman, appearing to comfort or assist her. [frame:2]
Also said
“You all right?” 54:15 · “Nothing to offer. Okay.” 54:17
Seen
tuxedo, dark dress, curtains, dark suit
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: social interaction, concern, formal setting; style notes: close two-shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire suggests evening setting

A man in formal wear speaks with a woman in a dimly lit interior; another man approaches and interacts with her. The transcript includes fragmented dialogue about a bank, a nurse, and reassurance.

“May I see you a minute?” 53:59 · “That's my bank.” 54:04 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 54:04 (passage 53:58–54:18); US record: No renewal found

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