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Great Guy · Beat 208 · permalink

Private office

1:03:50–1:04:09 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). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:03:521:03:52Frame at 1:03:551:03:55Frame at 1:03:581:03:58Frame at 1:04:051:04:05

Play from 1:03:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 106 · shots 370–373. 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:2
People
  • man in dark uniform and cap, medium build, visible in profile visible, audible
  • unseen person, audible only audible
  • two figures struggling on floor, one in dark coat, one in lighter shirt, visible in frame:2 and frame:4 visible
Seen happening
  • A struggle is visible inside a room with overturned furniture. [frame:2]
  • Two figures continue struggling near a fireplace. [frame:4]
Also said
“Come on.” 64:02
Seen
uniform and cap, overturned chair and debris on floor, fireplace with mantel and framed picture, hanging light fixture with three bulbs
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict, authority, disorder; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, medium shots, static camera, dramatic lighting from overhead fixture

A uniformed officer is seen speaking near a door while a struggle occurs inside a disheveled room. The transcript contains urgent commands to open a door and a complaint about being hit.

“Come on, Johnny. Open that door.” 63:51 · “Open that door. You can't beat up my head, man.” 63:56 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 1:03:52 (passage 1:03:50–1:04:09); US record: No renewal found

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