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Great Guy · Beat 22 · permalink

Newsroom

8:30–8:36 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). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 8:328:32Frame at 8:358:35

Play from 8:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 10 · shots 43–44. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
newsroom (newsroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, white shirt, tie, pocket square, slicked hair, smiling visible
  • man in dark suit, white shirt, tie, smiling, seated visible
  • man in suit and tie, mustache, seated behind p2 visible
  • man in suit, seated to right of p2, smiling visible
Seen happening
  • Man p1 stands smiling in front of clocks. [frame:1]
  • Man p2 sits smiling among other men in suits. [frame:2]
Seen
wall clocks, suit, suit, tie
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light and confident; themes: professionalism, group dynamics, media setting; style notes: studio-lit, medium close-up shots, formal attire, high contrast black and white

A man in a suit smiles at the camera while standing in front of clocks; another man in a suit smiles while seated among other men. The transcript includes the lines 'That's your answer.' and 'Come on.'

“That's your answer.” 8:32 · “Come on.” 8:34 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 8:32 (passage 8:30–8:36); US record: No renewal found

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