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Great Guy · Beat 25 · permalink

Private office

9:16–9:32 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; 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 9:179:17Frame at 9:269:26

Play from 9:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 10 · shots 50–51. 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, white shirt, patterned tie, neat hair, smiling visible
  • man seen from back, dark suit, partial profile visible
  • man in hat, standing near car, partially obscured visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit speaks to another man indoors. [frame:1]
  • The scene cuts to an outdoor street with parked cars and market signage. [frame:2]
Seen
desk, wall clock, parked cars, market signage (partially visible: 'FRUIT VEGETABLE'), cans or jars on display
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral to slightly tense, based on dialogue and formal attire; themes: urban commerce, personal responsibility, dialogue-driven transition; style notes: classic 1930s studio lighting, medium close-up indoors, wide shot outdoors, black and white

A man in a suit speaks to another man indoors, then the scene cuts to an outdoor street with parked cars and market signage. The transcript includes a line about kosher markets and a suggestion to take someone personally.

“Not the type of the kosher markets. I think I better take him myself. If you don't mind, I'll just call you out of wishes.” 9:17 · “Yeah.” 9:23 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 9:17 (passage 9:16–9:32); US record: No renewal found

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