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Great Guy · Beat 174 · permalink

Private office

56:08–56:17 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). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 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 56:1156:11Frame at 56:1656:16

Play from 56:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 85 · shots 308–309. 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
  • man in dark suit, seen from back, medium build visible
  • man in dark suit, facing camera, holding a cane or stick visible
  • man in dark suit, walking into frame from right visible
  • man in dark suit, standing near doorway visible
Seen happening
  • A man gestures toward a group of people in a room. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit walks into the room while others stand and talk. [frame:2]
Also said
“I figured.” 56:15
Seen
cane or stick, framed picture on wall, stool, curtains
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or anticipatory; themes: confrontation, social gathering, mystery; style notes: static medium shots, high contrast lighting, formal attire, staged composition

Two men in suits stand in a dimly lit room with others in the background; one man gestures while speaking. The scene appears to be an interior gathering or meeting, with no visible outdoor elements or time indicators.

“Look at that.” 56:09 · “Right there.” 56:12 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 56:11 (passage 56:08–56:17); US record: No renewal found

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