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Great Guy · Beat 53 · permalink

Shop

14:57–15:01 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). 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 14:5914:59

Play from 14:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 28 · shots 97–97. 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 coat and cap, crouched over a car tire visible
  • man wearing long coat and hat, standing with back to camera visible
Seen happening
  • A man works on a car tire. [frame:1]
  • A man stands near a car with its trunk open. [frame:1]
Seen
car with open trunk [frame:1], tire on car [frame:1], sign reading 'STOP YOUR' [frame:1], counter with bottles [frame:1]
On screen
STOP YOUR
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, focused on manual labor; themes: automotive repair, workplace setting; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting typical of 1930s studio films

A man in a dark coat and cap works on a car tire in a garage while another man in a long coat stands nearby. A sign reading 'STOP YOUR' is visible on a counter.

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 14:59 (passage 14:57–15:01); US record: No renewal found

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