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Great Guy · Beat 58 · permalink

Vehicle interior

16:10–16:33 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 16:2216:22

Play from 16:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 31 · shots 104–104. 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, curly hair, wearing a dark hat and dark coat with white collar visible, audible
  • man, wearing a dark bowler hat and suit, clean-shaven, mid-adult visible, audible
Also said
“Embarrassing to you. Yeah, I feel as though I had it on.” 16:24 · “We'll go to the Ritz.” 16:32
Seen
bowler hat [frame:1], dark hat with pin [frame:1], car interior with window frame [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light, conversational, slightly tense over the hat; themes: social appearance, personal choice, romantic banter; style notes: close two-shot through car window, high-contrast black-and-white, studio lighting, period costume

A man and a woman sit in a vehicle interior, discussing a hat the woman wears; the man suggests going to the Ritz for a meal. No names are spoken, and the setting is confined to the car’s interior.

“My best friend gets hit by a street car, winds up in the hospital, civil war in Spain, and earthquakes in Japan, and now you wear that hat. What's the matter with this hat?” 16:15 · “embarrasses me.” 16:23 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 16:22 (passage 16:10–16:33); US record: No renewal found

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