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Great Guy · Beat 205 · permalink

Living room

1:02:35–1:02:54 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 quote checked against the transcript; 3 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 1:02:421:02:42Frame at 1:02:521:02:52

Play from 1:02:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 105 · shots 357–358. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • dark-cloaked figure, face obscured, standing near fireplace visible
  • figure in dark coat and hat, adjusting hat, standing near fireplace visible
  • unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • Two figures stand near a fireplace in a dim room. [frame:2]
Seen
fireplace mantel [frame:2], framed picture [frame:2], patterned wallpaper [frame:1, frame:2], door with vertical panels [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: mysterious; themes: miscommunication, social gathering; style notes: low-key lighting, static framing, medium shot of figures near fireplace

A person speaks off-screen, mistaking the location of a party. Two figures in dark clothing are visible in a dimly lit room with patterned wallpaper and a fireplace.

“I thought the party was at Riley.” 62:48 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 1:02:42 (passage 1:02:35–1:02:54); US record: No renewal found

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