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56:19–56:29 Released 1936; registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 56:2456:24

Play from 56:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 87 · shots 311–311. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in tuxedo, dark hair, medium build visible
  • older man in tuxedo, white hair, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • One man gestures toward the other while speaking. [frame:1]
Seen
tuxedo [frame:1], bow tie [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, tense; themes: formal interaction, authority or instruction; style notes: medium close-up, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, studio framing

Two men in tuxedos stand close, one gesturing while speaking; the setting appears to be an indoor formal event. No names, times, or specific objects are established beyond the attire and interaction.

“Now, follow.” 56:21 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 56:24 (passage 56:19–56:29); US record: No renewal found

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