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Great Guy · Beat 193 · permalink

Private office

1:00:21–1:00:35 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; 1 name 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 1:00:281:00:28

Play from 1:00:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 97 · shots 342–342. 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 Cage (named at t:60:30): woman, mid-20s to 30s, wearing a light-colored blouse or robe, dark hair styled in a 1930s bob visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman picks up a telephone receiver. [frame:1]
Also said
“Well Captain Hanlon.” 60:28 · “Just say a friend of Johnny Cage.” 60:30
Seen
telephone receiver, desk, lamp, metal sculpture or trophy
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, secretive; themes: communication under pressure, identity concealment; style notes: low-key lighting, close-up framing, 1930s studio aesthetic

A woman is shown holding a telephone receiver in a dimly lit interior. The transcript indicates she is calling police headquarters and asking to speak to Captain Hanlon, identifying herself as a friend of Johnny Cage.

“Hello, police headquarters.” 60:22 · “And let me speak to Mr. Hanlon, please.” 60:24 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 1:00:28 (passage 1:00:21–1:00:35); US record: No renewal found

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