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Great Guy · Beat 69 · permalink

Restaurant

19:57–20:03 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). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 20:0020:00

Play from 19:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 122–122. 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, middle-aged, heavyset, wearing a suit and tie, left arm in a white sling visible
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a dark dress, seated at a table visible
  • man, light hair, wearing a suit, seated at a table visible
  • man, wearing a suit, standing in background visible
  • man, wearing a suit, standing in background visible
Seen happening
  • A man with a bandaged arm sits at a table in a restaurant. [frame:1]
Seen
table with glassware and napkin [frame:1], white sling on man's arm [frame:1], hats hanging on wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or resigned; themes: injury, social setting, dialogue-driven moment; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, black and white, static framing

A man in a suit with a bandaged arm sits at a table in a crowded restaurant. Other patrons are visible in the background, and a line of dialogue is spoken.

“All right.” 19:59 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 20:00 (passage 19:57–20:03); US record: No renewal found

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