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Great Guy · Beat 76 · permalink

Private office

22:18–22:31 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; 2 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 22:2422:24

Play from 22:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 134–134. 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 in dark suit, light shirt, tie, clean-shaven, mid-30s, medium build visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, older, balding, heavier build, seated behind desk visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men sit at a desk in conversation. [frame:1]
Also said
“Our organization can use young fellows like you.” 22:25
Seen
desk [frame:1], desk lamp [frame:1], telephone [frame:1], wall-mounted notice or poster [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious, persuasive; themes: recruitment, professional persuasion, formal interaction; style notes: medium two-shot, high-contrast lighting, studio set with minimal background detail

Two men in suits are seated at a desk in an office; one invites the other to join his club. No names are spoken, and no on-screen text is visible.

“I came over here to do something for you.” 22:20 · “How about coming into my club?” 22:23 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 22:24 (passage 22:18–22:31); US record: No renewal found

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