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Great Guy · Beat 49 · permalink

Shop

14:18–14:23 Released 1936; registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 14:2114:21

Play from 14:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 26 · shots 89–89. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(shop, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing dark suit, fedora, and tie, seated, looking down visible
  • man wearing dark coat and fedora, seated, pointing at object on table visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark coat points at an object on a table while another man in a suit looks down. [frame:1]
Also said
“For all cabinets.” 14:21
Seen
funnel [frame:1], mechanical device with pipes and valves [frame:1], workbench or table [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: focused, conversational; themes: mechanical work, collaborative inspection, dialogue-driven scene; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up on objects and hands, shallow depth of field, studio lighting

A man in a dark suit and fedora sits looking down while another man in a dark coat and fedora points at an object on a table; a funnel and mechanical device are visible on a workbench. The transcript includes brief affirmations and a comment about cabinets.

“Mm-hmm.” 14:19 · “That's what I thought.” 14:20 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 14:21 (passage 14:18–14:23); US record: No renewal found

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