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Great Guy · Beat 55 · permalink

Private office

15:03–15:50 Released 1936; registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 15:2615:26

Play from 15:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 29 · shots 99–99. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Janet (named at t:15:03): woman, mid-30s, dark suit, white collar, styled hair visible, audible
  • Mr. Kelly (named at t:15:08): not visible audible, mentioned
  • Mr. Marvin (named at t:15:08): not visible audible, mentioned
  • Mr. Canning (named at t:15:15): not visible audible, mentioned
Also said
“Thanks again Mr. Kelly. Not at all my pleasure. Goodbye Mr. Marvin.” 15:08 · “Oh, well, I'm checking away. Thank you.” 15:21
Seen
coat rack with hat and coat, desk with papers, vase with white flowers
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, transactional; themes: professional duty, personal time management, gender roles in workplace; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, static framing, 1930s office decor

A woman in a dark suit sits at a desk in an office, speaking with someone off-screen. She mentions checking away after lunch and references a date with her boyfriend.

“Janet, uh...” 15:03 · “Make out a check for $1,000 to the midnight mission. We made it right away.” 15:04 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 15:26 (passage 15:03–15:50); US record: No renewal found

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