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Great Guy · Beat 171 · permalink

Ballroom

54:51–54:55 Released 1936; registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 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 54:5354:53

Play from 54:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 83 · shots 304–304. 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 tuxedo, dark hair, medium build visible
  • woman in evening gown, blonde hair, fair complexion visible
  • man in tuxedo, seen from behind visible
  • man in tuxedo, partially visible visible
Seen
tuxedo [frame:1], evening gown [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, tense; themes: social gathering, intimacy in public, class; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film stock, focused on two central figures

A man in a tuxedo stands close to a woman in an evening gown in a crowded room. 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 54:53 (passage 54:51–54:55); US record: No renewal found

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