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Great Guy · Beat 31 · permalink

Shop

10:50–10:59 Released 1936; registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 10:5410:54

Play from 10:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 13 · shots 59–59. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
shop (shop, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and fedora, middle-aged, medium build visible, audible
  • man in dark suit and top hat, younger, slender build, holding a wrapped item visible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand at a counter in a shop; one holds a wrapped item. [frame:1]
Seen
wrapped item [frame:1], counter [frame:1], cash register [frame:1], hats (fedora and top hat) [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, mystery, everyday setting with implied danger; style notes: medium two-shot, black-and-white, studio lighting, period costumes

Two men in hats stand at a counter in a shop; one holds a wrapped item while the other speaks. The transcript includes a line about 'a lump of lead' and a denial of leaving something.

“A lump of lead.” 10:53 · “I didn't just leave it. Hold on.” 10:55 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 10:54 (passage 10:50–10:59); US record: No renewal found

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