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Great Guy · Beat 191 · permalink

Private office

59:45–1:00:08 Released 1936; registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 59:5659:56

Play from 59:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 95 · shots 340–340. 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
  • man in suit, light hair, mid-adult, medium build visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, back to camera visible
  • man in suit, older, balding, visible in background visible
  • woman with dark hair, visible in background visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit is restrained by others in a crowded room. [frame:1]
Also said
“Oh, yeah? Do you think you're big enough to kill me? Hold your horses, you're staying right here.” 59:54 · “All right, come on, folks. Step up. Let's have some. But stay, stay, quick.” 60:04
Seen
suit [frame:1], dark suit [frame:1], wall sconces [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and chaotic; themes: confrontation, restraint, chaos; style notes: tight framing on central figure, high-contrast lighting, crowded composition

A man in a suit is restrained by others in a crowded interior while shouting about being robbed and demanding to be let out; another person mentions Johnny wanting Mr. Borton and someone named Riley. The scene ends with a call for people to step up and stay quick.

“I've been robbed.” 59:45 · “They can hide. Let me out of here. Let me out of here. I've been robbing it. Let me out of here.” 59:46 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 59:56 (passage 59:45–1:00:08); US record: No renewal found

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