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Great Guy · Beat 173 · permalink

Private office

55:06–56:08 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 55:3155:31Frame at 56:0156:01

Play from 55:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 85 · shots 306–307. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Kenny (named at t:55:06): older man, wearing a dark tuxedo with bow tie, standing, leaning forward visible, audible
  • Triton Hadney (named at t:55:14): older man, wearing a dark tuxedo with bow tie, seated, holding an object visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men in tuxedos are visible in a room, one standing and leaning, the other seated. [frame:1]
  • Two men in tuxedos stand facing each other, one holding papers or money. [frame:2]
Also said
“I'll take a check.” 55:23 · “May I have the kid?” 55:25
Seen
{'item': 'tuxedo with bow tie', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'small statue on shelf', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'papers or money in hand', 'evidence': 'frame:2'} [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: extortion, negotiation, formal attire in a private setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire suggests a formal or high-stakes setting

Two men in formal wear are in a dimly lit room; one demands five thousand dollars for papers. The transcript includes a demand for payment, a mention of 'Triton Hadney', and a request to see a child.

“You can't scam me, Kenny. It's five grand or no papers, and that's fine.” 55:06 · “Triton Hadney.” 55:14 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 55:31 (passage 55:06–56:08); US record: No renewal found

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