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Great Guy · Beat 33 · permalink

Private office

11:25–11:35 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; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 11:3011:30

Play from 11:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 13 · shots 66–66. 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, tie, and bowler hat, holding a package visible
  • man with balding head, seen from behind, wearing dark suit visible
  • man in dark suit, partially visible on right edge of frame visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a bowler hat holds a package and speaks to others. [frame:1]
Also said
“Why do I press to help you?” 11:32 · “Let's go, please.” 11:34
Seen
package [frame:1], typewriter [frame:1], office desk [frame:1], bowler hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or transactional; themes: bureaucracy, conflict, negotiation; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, static framing, period costume

A man in a suit and bowler hat holds a package while speaking to others in an office setting. The transcript includes fragmented lines about weight, payment, and urging to leave.

“Four and a quarter pounds. I paid for...” 11:28 · “I can't understand that.” 11:30 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 11:30 (passage 11:25–11:35); US record: No renewal found

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