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Great Guy · Beat 54 · permalink

Garage

15:01–15:03 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 15:0215:02

Play from 15:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 28 · shots 98–98. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
garage (shop, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and hat, standing visible
  • man in dark work clothes, bent over car engine visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit stands beside a car while another man works on its engine. [frame:1]
Seen
car with open hood [frame:1], tire sign on wall [frame:1], oil cans on floor [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, work-focused; themes: mechanical labor, automotive repair; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting typical of 1930s studio production

A man in a suit stands beside a car while another man works on its engine in what appears to be a garage. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in the frames.

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 15:02 (passage 15:01–15:03); US record: No renewal found

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