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Great Guy · Beat 182 · permalink

Private office

57:18–57:40 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 57:2157:21Frame at 57:2657:26Frame at 57:3157:31Frame at 57:3757:37

Play from 57:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 89 · shots 326–329. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Johnny (named at t:57:24): man in tuxedo, fair hair, medium build visible, audible
  • man in tuxedo, heavier build, balding visible, audible
  • man in tuxedo, dark hair, serious expression visible
  • man in tuxedo, older, white hair visible
  • man in tuxedo, partially visible, dark hair visible
Seen happening
  • Men are seen in a tense cluster, one man is being held or restrained. [frame:4]
Also said
“*Screams*” 57:33 · “Get back, get back, will you give us the man?” 57:36
Seen
tuxedos [frame:1], bow ties [frame:1], dark interior with wall sconces [frame:2], art deco wall paneling [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: conflict, miscommunication, physical violence, social tension; style notes: high-contrast black and white, medium close-ups, dramatic lighting emphasizing facial expressions and group dynamics

A group of men in tuxedos are gathered in a dimly lit room, discussing a physical altercation involving punches and a knife. One man screams, and others react with urgency, demanding someone be brought forward or moved back.

“Tell me what happened. I never did find out.” 57:18 · “Oh, you threw a right, Johnny. No, no. He died it with a left. With a right. I'll show you.” 57:24 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 57:21 (passage 57:18–57:40); US record: No renewal found

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