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Beat 2

0:19–1:52 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; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:061:06

Play from 0:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends. Sequence 2 · shots 2–2. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

People
  • Joe Green (named at t:1:38): unseen; voice only audible
Also said
“Joe Green.” 1:38 · “No kidding.” 1:39
Seen
credit text
On screen
Photography . . . JACK MACKENZIE Art Direction . . . BEN CARRE Set Dressing . . . VICTOR GANGLIN Musical Direction . . . MARLIN SKILES Assistant Director . . . JOHN SHERWOOD Sound Technician . . . HAROLD BUMBAUGH Film Editor . . . RUSSELL SCHOENGARTH Gowns by . . . DOROTHY BEAL
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, procedural; themes: film credits, voiceover dialogue; style notes: static frame with stylized credit typography; high-contrast black-and-white; no camera movement or character framing

The beat shows end credits rolling over a stylized background, with no characters or action depicted. A voice speaks lines including 'Joe Green' and 'The doves in the hospital' during the same time the credits are displayed.

“I'm.” 0:52 · “The doves in the hospital.” 1:32 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 1:06 (passage 0:19–1:52); US record: No renewal found

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