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Great Guy · Beat 68 · permalink

Restaurant

19:24–19:57 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 19:3019:30Frame at 19:4619:46

Play from 19:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 36 · shots 120–121. 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
  • man in dark suit and tie, neat hair, seated at table visible, audible
  • woman with curly hair, dark dress with white collar, wearing a small hat, seated at table visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman are seated at a table in a restaurant, engaged in conversation. [frame:1]
  • The woman gestures with her hand while speaking to the man. [frame:2]
Also said
“You say you were cockeyed. He's known us if the day is long.” 19:34 · “I love you too.” 19:52
Seen
table with plates and utensils [frame:1], woman's small dark hat with decoration [frame:2], man's suit and tie [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and personal; themes: loyalty, personal conflict, romantic declaration; style notes: medium close-up shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal attire, crowded background suggesting public setting

Two people converse at a table in a crowded public dining space; one man speaks while the woman listens and responds. The dialogue references a Mr. Canning and a Joe Green, and includes personal statements about loyalty and affection.

“All I know, if I'm Mr. Canning, it is your voice.” 19:24 · “Well, Johnny, you're hopeless.” 19:27 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 19:30 (passage 19:24–19:57); US record: No renewal found

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