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Great Guy · Beat 190 · permalink

Private office

59:12–59:45 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; 2 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 59:2859:28

Play from 59:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 94 · shots 339–339. 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
  • Johnny (named at t:59:26): man, middle-aged, wearing a tuxedo with bow tie and boutonniere visible, audible
  • woman, young, wearing a light-colored dress, dark hair styled in waves visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand facing each other in conversation. [frame:1]
Also said
“No, he's gone out looking.” 59:31 · “He has a date with... Mr. Kelly.” 59:35
Seen
tuxedo with bow tie and boutonniere, light-colored dress, wall clock
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and conversational; themes: social interaction, romantic implication, formal attire; style notes: medium shot, black-and-white, soft lighting focused on faces, classic 1930s framing

A man in a tuxedo and a woman in a light dress converse in a dimly lit interior. The transcript mentions Johnny Cage, Mr. Kelly, and Mr. Bertrand, and includes dialogue about marriage, money, and someone having gone out looking.

“Your friend of Johnny Cage.” 59:13 · “You are the one. Johnny.” 59:26 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 59:28 (passage 59:12–59:45); US record: No renewal found

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