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Great Guy · Beat 167 · permalink

Ballroom

54:18–54:34 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 quotes checked against the transcript; 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 54:2654:26

Play from 54:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 79 · shots 300–300. 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
  • Mr. Kelly (named at t:54:19): man, middle-aged, wearing tuxedo and bow tie visible
  • Janet (named at t:54:20): woman, wearing light-colored evening dress, holding a small clutch visible, audible
  • Mr. Candy (named at t:54:21): man, younger, wearing tuxedo, standing beside Janet visible, audible
  • Parker (named at t:54:24): man, middle-aged, wearing tuxedo, facing Janet and p3 visible, audible
Also said
“I'd like to know Mr. Private. This is my boss, Mr. Candy.” 54:21 · “The name is Parker.” 54:24
Seen
tuxedos [frame:1], evening dress [frame:1], clutch purse [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, slightly tense; themes: social introduction, misidentification, class distinction; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, formal attire, black-and-white film

A man in a tuxedo greets a woman and introduces her to another man at a formal gathering. The woman identifies her boss as Mr. Candy, and the second man corrects his name to Parker.

“Hello, Mr. Kelly.” 54:19 · “Janet.” 54:20 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 54:26 (passage 54:18–54:34); US record: No renewal found

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