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Great Guy · Beat 189 · permalink

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59:05–59:12 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). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 59:0959:09

Play from 59:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 93 · shots 338–338. 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
  • woman in light formal gown with back detail, dark hair in updo visible
  • man in tuxedo, facing away, dark hair visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand facing a third man who is turned away. [frame:1]
Seen
tuxedo [frame:1], formal gown [frame:1], curtained window or backdrop [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, tense; themes: social interaction, formal attire, unresolved dialogue; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, black and white, static framing

A man in a tuxedo and a woman in a formal gown stand in a room with another man in a tuxedo facing away; a transcript line says 'Excuse me.' and another says 'by the end.'

“Excuse me.” 59:09 · “by the end.” 59:10 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 59:09 (passage 59:05–59:12); US record: No renewal found

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