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Great Guy · Beat 42 · permalink

Shop

12:16–12:40 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; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 12:1612:16Frame at 12:2712:27Frame at 12:3112:31Frame at 12:3812:38

Play from 12:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 20 · shots 76–81. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
shop (shop, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man wearing a dark suit and a fedora, medium build visible, audible
  • man wearing a white butcher's coat and hat, medium build visible, audible
  • man wearing a dark suit, no hat, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • The man in the hat holds a chicken while speaking. [frame:2]
  • A man in a suit stands across a counter from the man in the hat in a crowded shop. [frame:3]
  • The man in the hat and the butcher face each other, the butcher looking stern. [frame:4]
Also said
“- I'm all out of the way.” 12:31 · “And another move out of you and I'll pin your ears back.” 12:36
Seen
chicken [frame:2], butcher's counter [frame:3], cash register [frame:1], sign reading 'LAMB 19' [frame:2]
On screen
LAMB 19
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: conflict, commerce, intimidation; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast lighting, static camera, crowded framing

A man in a hat interacts with a butcher in a crowded shop, then holds a chicken while speaking. Another man in a suit confronts him across a counter.

“I'm going to get that chicken.” 12:16 · “No, no, give me a second.” 12:19 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 12:16 (passage 12:16–12:40); US record: No renewal found

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