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Great Guy · Beat 212 · permalink

Living room

1:04:38–1:06:10 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; 3 names 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 1:05:241:05:24

Play from 1:04:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 108 · shots 377–377. 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:1
People
  • man in dark suit, standing, medium build, adult visible
  • woman with dark hair, seated on couch, wearing dark dress, adult visible
  • Johnny (named at t:64:41): man in suit, seated on couch, adult visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands near a seated couple in a living room. [frame:1]
Also said
“On the installment plan.” 64:56 · “I'm sorry.” 65:46
Seen
couch [frame:1], lamp [frame:1], fireplace mantel [frame:1], wall sconce [frame:1], vase with flowers [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and intimate; themes: financial strain, romantic conflict, deception or secrecy; style notes: static medium shot, low-key lighting, studio set with period decor

A man and a woman sit on a couch in a dimly lit room while another man stands nearby; dialogue suggests a discussion about money, a ring bought on installment, and an emotional exchange. No names are spoken that can be assigned to visible individuals.

“Johnny, you didn't use the money we'd saved.” 64:41 · “How did you get the ring?” 64:51 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 1:05:24 (passage 1:04:38–1:06:10); US record: No renewal found

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