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Great Guy · Beat 35 · permalink

Shop

11:38–12:01 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; 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 11:4811:48Frame at 12:0012:00

Play from 11:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 68–69. 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, frame:2
People
  • man in dark suit, tie, and bowler hat, holding a small object visible, audible
  • man in suit with bow tie and pocket square, balding, standing beside p1 visible
Also said
“Hold on to that, Ella. We should have to evidence.” 11:58 · “It'll not leave my hand.” 12:00
Seen
bowler hat [frame:1, frame:2], small object held by p1 [frame:1, frame:2], suit and tie [frame:1, frame:2], bow tie and pocket square [frame:2], shelves with boxes [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, transactional; themes: evidence, negotiation, post-incarceration; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast lighting, static framing, period costume

Two men in suits and hats are in a shop-like interior; one holds an object and speaks about keeping it as evidence. A line mentions a bird being bought back and someone spoiled after jail.

“You haven't missed any bets, have you?” 11:45 · “How about buying that bird back for 50 bucks? Oh, it'll be a waste of money.” 11:50 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 11:48 (passage 11:38–12:01); US record: No renewal found

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