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Great Guy · Beat 62 · permalink

Restaurant

17:42–18:11 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; 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 17:5617:56

Play from 17:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 32 · shots 111–111. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • thin, young, wearing dark suit, white shirt, tie, and top hat visible
  • Jenna (named at t:17:47): heavyset, middle-aged, wearing dark suit, vest, white shirt, tie, and fedora visible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand side by side holding trays with food. [frame:1]
Also said
“Don't you? They're up and high.” 17:44 · “Jenna.” 17:47
Seen
tray with food [frame:1], top hat [frame:1], fedora [frame:1], suit and tie [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral to slightly tense, based on fragmented dialogue and static framing; themes: social interaction, service setting, dialogue-driven moment; style notes: medium two-shot, black-and-white, studio lighting, period costumes

Two men in suits and hats carry trays in a crowded indoor space. One man is addressed by name as 'Jenna' in the transcript.

“tell-o.” 17:42 · “Two.” 17:43 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 17:56 (passage 17:42–18:11); US record: No renewal found

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