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Great Guy · Beat 27 · permalink

Shop

9:39–10:11 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; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 9:439:43Frame at 9:559:55Frame at 10:0710:07

Play from 9:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 10 · shots 53–55. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(shop, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and bowler hat, medium build, facing away in frame 1, visible in profile in frame 2 visible, audible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, younger, facing p1 in frame 2, standing near counter in frame 3 visible, audible
  • man in light shirt and cap, behind counter, visible in frame 1 and 3 visible
Also said
“And if you cut down the vines, you do wear with their power to do good for you.” 10:00 · “But there are no strawberries in Ireland.” 10:05
Seen
shelves with bottles and goods, counter with scale and produce, signage including 'Flour' and '5', bowler hat and fedora
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light, conversational with a touch of whimsy; themes: folklore, consumerism, cultural exchange; style notes: medium shots, static camera, studio lighting, period costumes and set design

Two men in suits and hats converse in a shop while a clerk is visible behind a counter; one man speaks about strawberries and a folk belief regarding vines and fairies. The setting includes shelves with goods and signage, and the dialogue references Ireland and berry picking.

“Oh, I wish I think I buy some strawberries.” 9:42 · “You know, there's a say in an island that it's all right to pick the berries, but you must never, never cut down the vine, because under the vines live all the good fairies.” 9:52 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 9:43 (passage 9:39–10:11); US record: No renewal found

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