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Hospital

2:14–2:37 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 2:182:18Frame at 2:262:26Frame at 2:322:32Frame at 2:352:35

Play from 2:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 4 · shots 4–7. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
hospital (hospital, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Mr. Green (named at t:2:15): man in a hospital bed, wearing a bandage on his head, appears middle-aged visible, audible
  • man in a white doctor's coat, dark hair, standing beside the bed visible
  • woman in a white nurse's uniform and cap, standing beside the bed visible
Seen happening
  • Mr. Green is lying in a hospital bed, attended by a doctor and a nurse. [frame:1]
  • Mr. Green is shown in close-up, looking up, with his hand on his chest. [frame:2]
  • The doctor and nurse are standing together beside the bed, looking down at Mr. Green. [frame:3]
  • The doctor and nurse continue to attend to Mr. Green in the bed. [frame:4]
Also said
“I promise to obey all your orders from now on if you'll just let me talk to Johnny Cave.” 2:22 · “I must, I tell you, it's urgent.” 2:28
Seen
hospital bed [frame:1], doctor's coat [frame:1], nurse's uniform and cap [frame:1], bandage on patient's head [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and pleading; themes: medical authority vs. patient autonomy, urgency of communication, hospital confinement; style notes: static medium shots and close-ups, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s studio films, focused on character interaction

A patient in a hospital bed is attended by a doctor and a nurse; the patient insists on making an urgent phone call despite being told he cannot. The doctor and nurse are present and appear to be managing the patient's care.

“Mr. Green, you can't phone anyone, Doctor at all.” 2:15 · “I must, I tell you, just once. Mr. Green, you're a very thick man. Oh.” 2:18 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 2:18 (passage 2:14–2:37); US record: No renewal found

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