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Great Guy · Beat 7 · permalink

Hospital

2:47–3:41 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 3:083:08Frame at 3:323:32Frame at 3:373:37Frame at 3:403:40

Play from 2:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 7 · shots 10–13. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(hospital, interior) evidence: frame:3, t:3:26
People
  • woman with styled hair, wearing a dark jacket and light blouse, holding a newspaper and telephone receiver visible, audible
  • Johnny Cave (named at t:3:38): man with slicked-back hair, wearing a dark double-breasted coat and tie visible, audible
  • woman in a white nurse’s uniform and cap visible
  • man in dark suit, partially visible in background visible
  • woman in dark hat, partially visible in background visible
Seen happening
  • A woman is on the phone while reading a newspaper. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit stands in a lobby. [frame:2]
  • A nurse is shown in uniform. [frame:3]
  • The man in the suit speaks again. [frame:4]
Also said
“Dr. Richards, please. First of all, to your right. Third door.” 3:26 · “Well, would you please tell him Johnny Cave called?” 3:38
Seen
telephone receiver, newspaper, nurse's uniform and cap, double-breasted coat, lobby desk
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and tense; themes: bureaucracy, communication, restricted access; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, studio lighting, static framing

A woman speaks on the phone while reading a newspaper; a man in a suit is seen in a lobby; a nurse is shown; the man speaks again. A phone conversation references Mr. Green, Mr. Cave, and Dr. Richards, and a visitor is denied access to Mr. Green.

“Stop, Mr. Green.” 2:52 · “Here is Mr. Thornton's room.” 3:16 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 3:08 (passage 2:47–3:41); US record: No renewal found

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