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Great Guy · Beat 71 · permalink

Private office

20:06–21:11 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; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 20:3920:39

Play from 20:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 39 · shots 124–124. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Mr. Haley (named at t:20:20): man, mid-30s, wearing a suit and tie, standing visible, audible
  • woman, mid-30s, seated at desk, wearing a blouse and jacket visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man hands the woman a letter at a desk. [frame:1]
Also said
“It has a certain ring to it.” 20:43 · “Today is ten after six and we don't pay overtime.” 21:06
Seen
desk [frame:1], letter [frame:1], lamp [frame:1], telephone [frame:1], door with signage [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light and conversational; themes: office interaction, personal disclosure, name etymology; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, formal office setting, static camera

A man and a woman interact at a desk in an office; the man hands her an object while they speak. The dialogue includes personal questions and a discussion of the surname 'Haley' and its history.

“I'll hit you hanging.” 20:06 · “Oh, Mr. Haley. I wonder if by any chance you happen to be going my way.” 20:20 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 20:39 (passage 20:06–21:11); US record: No renewal found

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