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Great Guy · Beat 30 · permalink

Shop

10:45–10:50 Released 1936; registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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 10:4710:47

Play from 10:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 12 · shots 58–58. 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 wearing white coat, white cap, glasses, and tie; appears middle-aged, standing behind counter visible
  • person wearing dark hat and coat, seen from back visible, audible
Also said
“Nice to meet you.” 10:48
Seen
price signs for meat cuts [frame:1], white cap and coat [frame:1], dark hat and coat [frame:1], counter with meat display [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, transactional; themes: commerce, customer service, 1930s retail; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, black-and-white, static framing focused on interaction at counter

A man in a white coat and cap stands behind a counter in a shop, speaking to a customer in a hat. The customer is seen from behind, and the shop displays price signs for meat cuts.

“There you are six pounds right on the head.” 10:45 · “Wrap it up.” 10:47 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 10:47 (passage 10:45–10:50); US record: No renewal found

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