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Great Guy · Beat 24 · permalink

Private office

8:56–9:16 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 8:598:59Frame at 9:049:04Frame at 9:119:11

Play from 8:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 10 · shots 47–49. 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 in dark suit and tie, mid-adult, medium build, facing camera in frame:2, profile in frame:1 and frame:3 visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, seen from back or side in all frames, mid-adult, medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand facing each other in conversation. [frame:1]
  • One man smiles while speaking to the other. [frame:2]
  • One man listens with a serious expression. [frame:3]
Also said
“But I live most of my by-hood in a little bit of a village outside of Flotspong, County of Mayo.” 9:11
Seen
suit [frame:1], tie [frame:2], wooden furniture [frame:2], wall clock [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious and conversational; themes: identity, origin, dialogue-driven scene; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, studio lighting, formal attire, static camera

Two men in suits converse in an interior setting; one speaks of being born in Ireland and living near Flotspong, County of Mayo. No names are spoken, and no objects or signage are visible beyond the men and the room's background.

“I was around to all the newspapers to see if they knew that you” 8:57 · “Well, I was born on the Great Plathskett Island at the southwest coast of Ireland.” 9:06 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 8:59 (passage 8:56–9:16); US record: No renewal found

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