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Great Guy · Beat 73 · permalink

Private office

21:34–21:44 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). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 21:3921:39

Play from 21:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 39 · shots 129–129. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man seated at desk, wearing dark suit, glasses, looking down at papers visible
  • man standing, wearing light-colored suit, smiling, facing the seated man visible
  • Hazel (named at t:21:34): woman standing, wearing dark coat and hat, holding a folder or book, looking at the standing man visible
Seen happening
  • Three people are present in an office: one seated at a desk, one standing beside him, and a woman in a hat standing nearby. [frame:1]
Also said
“Sure I do. If you'll stop talking long enough for me to use them.” 21:35
Seen
desk [frame:1], map on wall [frame:1], typewriter [frame:1], lamp [frame:1], folder or book held by woman [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted with a hint of tension; themes: office interaction, gender dynamics, dialogue-driven scene; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, static framing, period costumes and office decor

A man stands beside a seated man at a desk while a woman in a hat stands nearby; dialogue includes farewells and a remark about knowing answers. The setting appears to be an office with a map on the wall and desk items visible.

“- Good night, Hazel. - Good night.” 21:34 · “Take care of yourself. Don't worry about her. She knows all the answers.” 21:35 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 21:39 (passage 21:34–21:44); US record: No renewal found

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