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Great Guy · Beat 184 · permalink

Private office

57:44–58:06 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; 8 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 57:4757:47Frame at 57:5857:58

Play from 57:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 89 · shots 331–332. 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
  • man in tuxedo, light hair, seated, being held visible
  • man in dark suit, standing, holding p1 visible
  • man in dark suit, gesturing with hands, facing group visible
  • man in suit, partially visible, standing near p1 visible
  • man in suit, visible in background, observing visible
  • man in suit, visible in background, observing visible
  • man in suit, visible in background, observing visible
  • man in suit, visible in background, observing visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a tuxedo is being held by others in a crowded room. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit gestures while speaking to a group. [frame:2]
Also said
“You take care of me, Alex.” 57:58 · “Wait a minute, Howard. I'll see you later.” 58:00
Seen
tuxedo [frame:1], dark suits [frame:1], door frame [frame:1], scotch glass (implied) [t:57:54], wall paneling [frame:2], lighting fixture (implied) [frame:2], handkerchief (in tuxedo pocket) [frame:1], gesturing hands [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: conflict, intervention, social ritual (drinking); style notes: tight framing, high contrast lighting, formal attire, crowded composition

A man in a tuxedo is held by others in a crowded interior while dialogue about scotch and care is exchanged. Another man in a suit gestures amid a group in the same space.

“Away, that water!” 57:44 · “Quick, take a shot of scotch.” 57:54 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 57:47 (passage 57:44–58:06); US record: No renewal found

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