Public Reel

Great Guy · Beat 57 · permalink

Vehicle interior

15:54–16:10 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; 2 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 15:5615:56Frame at 16:0116:01Frame at 16:0716:07

Play from 15:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 31 · shots 101–103. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, wearing dark coat and hat, visible from chest up, smiling in frame 1, speaking in frame 3 visible, audible
  • Winston (named at t:16:07): man, wearing suit, tie, and fedora, visible from chest up, facing p1, speaking in frame 2 visible, audible
Also said
“Perfectly all right, Winston.” 16:07 · “Amen.” 16:09
Seen
car interior [frame:1], fedora [frame:2], coat and hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light, conversational, with a hint of playful tension; themes: romantic banter, social status, time and punctuality; style notes: close-up framing inside vehicle, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static camera angles focusing on dialogue

A woman and a man are seated inside a car, exchanging dialogue. The woman speaks first, followed by the man, and then the woman again, with the man responding affirmatively at the end.

“Johnny Cave, dear, you're five minutes late, honey. Oh, you're very lucky.” 15:55 · “I've kept others waiting for days.” 15:59 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.

Share

Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.

Frame from Great Guy (1936) at 15:56 (passage 15:54–16:10); US record: No renewal found

Permalink
always the current cut
Permalink to this version
warns if the beats are recut later
Card image
https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/Great_Guy.avi/b57.png
Figure for a newsletter or page
Cite