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Great Guy · Beat 63 · permalink

Restaurant

18:11–18:15 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 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 18:1318:13

Play from 18:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 33 · shots 112–112. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
restaurant (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, balding, wearing dark suit, leaning over table visible
  • younger man, dark hair, wearing suit and tie, holding utensil visible
  • man in background, older, wearing dark suit, hand near face visible
  • person in background, dark hair, back to camera visible
Seen
table [frame:1], plate [frame:1], utensil [frame:1], cup [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or focused; themes: dining, social interaction; style notes: medium shot, high contrast lighting, black and white film

Two men are seated at a table in a restaurant, one eating while the other gestures. Other patrons are visible in the background.

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 18:13 (passage 18:11–18:15); US record: No renewal found

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