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Great Guy · Beat 46 · permalink

Shop

13:59–14:12 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 14:0614:06

Play from 13:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 86–86. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(shop, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and fedora, seated, light complexion, mid-adult visible, audible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, standing, light complexion, mid-adult visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The standing man gestures toward the car's fuel tank. [frame:1]
Also said
“The car is taking the divide.” 14:06 · “Now you're five gallons.” 14:10
Seen
car with open fuel tank [frame:1], gas pump [frame:1], fedora hats [frame:1], dark suits [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, transactional; themes: automobile culture, resource scarcity, male camaraderie; style notes: medium two-shot, high-contrast black-and-white, studio lighting, period costume

Two men in hats stand beside a car at a gas station; one speaks about the car's fuel level while the other responds. The dialogue references a five-gallon quantity and the car taking 'the divide.'

“How much did you have in there?” 14:03 · “Not a drop, kid.” 14:05 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 14:06 (passage 13:59–14:12); US record: No renewal found

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