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Great Guy · Beat 74 · permalink

Private office

21:44–22:01 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). 2 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 21:5221:52Frame at 22:0022:00

Play from 21:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 130–131. 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
  • man in dark suit, tie, and fedora hat, standing visible
  • Johnny Katie (named at t:21:58): man in suit and tie, seated at desk, looking up visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit and hat stands in a doorway. [frame:1]
  • A seated man looks up toward the doorway. [frame:2]
Seen
wooden door [frame:1], desk lamp [frame:2], sign on glass door reading 'WEIGHTS AND MEASURES' and 'JOEL GREEN' [frame:1]
On screen
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES / JOEL GREEN
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: identity, confrontation, official space; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire suggests 1930s setting

A man in a suit and hat stands in a doorway while another man sits at a desk. The transcript includes a line identifying someone as 'Johnny Katie' and a response of 'Yes.'

“You're Johnny Katie. What you.” 21:58 · “Yes.” 22:00 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 21:52 (passage 21:44–22:01); US record: No renewal found

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