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Great Guy · Beat 61 · permalink

Dining hall

17:08–17:42 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). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 17:1517:15Frame at 17:2917:29Frame at 17:3817:38Frame at 17:4117:41

Play from 17:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 32 · shots 107–110. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
dining_hall (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • woman wearing a dark hat with a white crescent, dark dress with white collar, curly hair visible
  • Chief Deputy (named at t:17:13): man wearing a dark suit, light shirt, patterned tie, and a bowler hat; clean-shaven, mid-30s visible, audible
  • Gold Green (named at t:17:22): man wearing a light-colored fedora, dark suit, vest, and white shirt; heavier build, mid-40s visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman and a man in a bowler hat sit at a table in a dining hall. [frame:1]
  • A third man in a fedora approaches the table holding a plate. [frame:2]
  • The man in the bowler hat smiles at the woman. [frame:3]
  • The man in the fedora looks toward the camera with a serious expression. [frame:4]
Also said
“Hot roast. Gold Green's in the hospital.” 17:22 · “Well, that puts you in charge.” 17:34
Seen
long dining table [frame:2], plates and cutlery [frame:2], bowler hat [frame:1], fedora [frame:4], dark suit with vest [frame:4], dark dress with white collar [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: power transition, unexpected news, formal social setting; style notes: medium shots, static camera, high-contrast black-and-white lighting typical of 1930s studio films

A man and a woman in formal attire are seated at a long table in a crowded dining hall; a third man in a hat approaches with a plate. The transcript reveals dialogue about spinach, a hospitalization, and a transfer of authority to the man at the table.

“- Are you skipping that spinach? - I certainly am. - Another portion, please.” 17:09 · “Find a way to go into Chief Deputy.” 17:13 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 17:15 (passage 17:08–17:42); US record: No renewal found

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