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Great Guy · Beat 45 · permalink

Gas station

13:48–13:59 Released 1936; registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 13:5413:54

Play from 13:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 22 · shots 85–85. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
gas station (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a dark coat and fedora hat, seen from behind visible
Seen
gas pump [frame:1], car with open hood [frame:1], signage reading 'STOP YOUR' and partial 'TIRE' and 'CLEAN' on window [frame:1]
On screen
STOP YOUR, TIRE, CLEAN (visible on window in frame:1)
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, routine; themes: automotive service, everyday labor; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, static framing, practical lighting

A man in a coat and hat stands at a gas pump with a car hood open. The setting is a gas station with visible signage and equipment.

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 13:54 (passage 13:48–13:59); US record: No renewal found

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