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Great Guy · Beat 201 · permalink

Private office

1:02:00–1:02:03 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). 1 name 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 1:02:021:02:02

Play from 1:02:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 103 · shots 350–350. 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 wearing a top hat and dark coat, middle-aged, average build visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a top hat looks down at a piece of paper he is holding. [frame:1]
Seen
top hat [frame:1], dark coat [frame:1], piece of paper [frame:1], doorway [frame:1], overhead light [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious, contemplative; themes: solitude, decision-making; style notes: high-contrast lighting, tight framing on the subject, static camera

A man in a top hat and dark coat stands in a doorway, holding a piece of paper and looking down at it. The scene is dimly lit with a single overhead light source.

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 1:02:02 (passage 1:02:00–1:02:03); US record: No renewal found

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