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Great Guy · Beat 50 · permalink

Bar

14:23–14:24 Released 1936; registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 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 14:2314:23

Play from 14:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 27 · shots 90–90. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing fedora and suit, crouching, handling object visible
  • man wearing fedora and dark coat, leaning forward visible
Seen happening
  • One man crouches and manipulates an object on a counter while another leans in to watch. [frame:1]
Seen
fedora hats [frame:1], suits [frame:1], counter or bar top [frame:1], object being handled (possibly a bottle or tool) [frame:1], bar stool or chair [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or secretive; themes: crime, conspiracy, noir; style notes: low-key lighting, medium close-up, period costume, static framing

Two men in hats and suits are seen in a dimly lit interior, one crouching and handling an object on a counter while the other leans in to observe. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 14:23 (passage 14:23–14:24); US record: No renewal found

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