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Great Guy · Beat 66 · permalink

Restaurant

18:32–18:52 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 18:4218:42

Play from 18:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 115–115. 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
  • woman wearing a dark dress and a hat with a white collar visible, audible
  • Johnny (named at t:18:47): man in a suit and tie, eating with a fork visible, audible
Also said
“No, we can't afford it, Johnny. I'll wait.” 18:47 · “Now, since you're making more decisions, when are you going to make the leap?” 18:49
Seen
table with plates and glasses, fork in man's hand, woman's hat with emblem
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate and financially strained; themes: marriage planning, budgeting, gender roles in decision-making; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, formal attire, 1930s setting

A man and a woman sit at a table in a restaurant, discussing finances and wedding plans. The man mentions buying a ring and furniture, while the woman declines a purchase, saying she will wait.

“I put your money in the bank yesterday.” 18:33 · “I picked you up the wedding ring. Just a plain gold band, but you loved it.” 18:37 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 18:42 (passage 18:32–18:52); US record: No renewal found

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