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Great Guy · Beat 65 · permalink

Restaurant

18:18–18:32 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 18:2518:25

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

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 35 · shots 114–114. 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
  • man in suit, mid-adult, smiling, holding a napkin visible
  • man in suit, mid-adult, facing p1, listening visible
  • man in background, seated, partially visible visible
  • man in background, standing, wearing dark coat visible
Seen happening
  • Two men sit at a table in a restaurant, one holding a napkin and smiling while the other listens. [frame:1]
Also said
“my social media.” 18:25 · “That's very social.” 18:28
Seen
napkin, teacup, spoon, table
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light and conversational; themes: social interaction, dining, dialogue-driven scene; style notes: medium close-up, studio lighting, black-and-white, static framing

Two men sit at a table in a restaurant, one holding a napkin and smiling while the other listens; other patrons are visible in the background. A line mentions the Ritz, and another thanks someone while referencing social media, though the latter is likely a transcription error given the 1936 context.

“I was going to have lunch at the Ritz.” 18:21 · “Thanks so much.” 18:24 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 18:25 (passage 18:18–18:32); US record: No renewal found

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