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Great Guy · Beat 188 · permalink

Private office

58:31–59:05 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; 3 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 58:4358:43Frame at 59:0059:00

Play from 58:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 93 · shots 336–337. 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
  • Brayden (named at t:59:00): man in tuxedo, bow tie, boutonniere, medium build, dark hair visible, audible
  • woman, curly blonde hair, dark dress with white collar, medium build visible, audible
  • man in tuxedo, light hair, medium build, standing close to p1 visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a tuxedo speaks to a woman in a formal room. [frame:1]
  • The same man confronts another man in a tuxedo. [frame:2]
Also said
“Father, I'm with you.” 58:44 · “- What's my husband?” 58:35
Seen
tuxedo [frame:1], bow tie [frame:1], boutonniere [frame:1], dark dress with white collar [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: social class, family dynamics, confrontation; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, formal attire, studio lighting

A man in a tuxedo speaks with a woman and then confronts another man in a formal interior. The transcript includes dialogue about a husband, a garden, and a character named Brayden, with one speaker instructing someone to watch Brayden and go to his apartment.

“You keep your eye on Brayden. Tell my aunt to let him out of here. I'm going to go to Brayden's apartment.” 59:00 · “Oh, yes, yes, yes. I was simply telling the girl... Excuse us, sir.” 58:53 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 58:43 (passage 58:31–59:05); US record: No renewal found

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