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Great Guy · Beat 32 · permalink

Shop

10:59–11:25 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). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 11:0111:01Frame at 11:1411:14Frame at 11:1611:16Frame at 11:2211:22

Play from 10:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 13 · shots 60–65. 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, white shirt, tie, and fedora hat; medium build, appears middle-aged visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, white shirt, tie, and bowler hat; balding, heavier build visible
  • man in white chef's hat and coat; older, heavier build visible
  • man in dark suit, white shirt, tie, and bowler hat; holding a paper bag visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a bowler hat gestures toward a machine at a counter. [frame:1]
  • A man in a fedora hat speaks while gesturing with both hands. [frame:3]
  • A man in a bowler hat stands at the counter while another man holds a bag. [frame:4]
Also said
“Well, how do you suppose those got there?” 11:17 · “Let me have that sugar.” 11:21
Seen
large white machine with circular opening, paper bag, counter, chef's hat, bowler hat, fedora hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: mystery, dialogue-driven scene, everyday setting with underlying tension; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, static camera, period costumes

In a shop, a man in a suit and hat gestures while speaking to others near a counter with a large machine; another man holds a bag. A transcript line mentions 'that poison' and 'let me have that sugar.'

“Now, what's the idea? You can't...” 10:59 · “That poison.” 11:15 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 11:01 (passage 10:59–11:25); US record: No renewal found

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