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Great Guy · Beat 169 · permalink

Living room

54:39–54:41 Released 1936; registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 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 54:4054:40

Play from 54:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 81 · shots 302–302. 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 dark suit, dark hair, medium build visible
  • woman in light dress, blonde hair, medium build visible
  • man in suit, dark hair, medium build, holding glass visible
Seen
suit [frame:1], light dress [frame:1], glass [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: social interaction, intimacy, formal attire; style notes: medium close-up, low-key lighting, black-and-white film stock

A man in a dark suit stands close to a woman in a light dress in a dimly lit interior; another man in a suit is visible in the background. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 54:40 (passage 54:39–54:41); US record: No renewal found

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