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Great Guy · Beat 67 · permalink

Restaurant

18:52–19:24 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; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 18:5518:55Frame at 19:0119:01Frame at 19:0919:09Frame at 19:1919:19

Play from 18:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 116–119. 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 with white collar and a hat with a feather or ornament, curly hair visible, audible
  • man in a dark suit and tie, slicked-back hair, holding a utensil visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman and a man sit at a table in a crowded restaurant, smiling and talking. [frame:1]
  • The man gestures with a utensil while speaking to the woman. [frame:2]
  • The woman looks down at her plate while the man continues to hold a utensil. [frame:3]
  • The woman speaks to the man, who listens with a slight smile. [frame:4]
Also said
“furnish a cozy little apartment” 19:07 · “Everybody's a burglar, everybody's a crook.” 19:16
Seen
table with plates and glasses, utensil held by man, hat with feather or ornament, dark suit and tie
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: conversational with undertones of tension or moral critique; themes: social class, moral ambiguity, personal plans vs. societal norms; style notes: medium close-ups, studio lighting, formal attire, crowded background suggesting public space

Two people sit at a table in a crowded public dining space, conversing while eating; the transcript includes fragmented dialogue about plans, belief, and social roles. No names are spoken that identify the individuals, and no time of day or period is established.

“I've been thinking about that too.” 18:54 · “Play which one Saturday?” 18:58 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 18:55 (passage 18:52–19:24); US record: No renewal found

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