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Private office

24:11–24:20 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; 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 24:1424:14Frame at 24:1824:18

Play from 24:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 41 · shots 149–150. 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, neat hair, mid-adult, medium build visible, audible
  • Johnny (named at t:24:17): man in dark suit, patterned tie, neat hair, mid-adult, medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man gestures with his right hand while speaking to another man across a desk. [frame:1]
  • A man leans forward with a stern expression, listening. [frame:2]
Also said
“Now listen, Johnny.” 24:17 · “We can do things for you or to you.” 24:18
Seen
desk, desk lamp, papers, wall picture
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: power dynamics, threat, negotiation; style notes: medium close-up shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, static camera

Two men are seated at a desk in an office; one gestures while speaking, the other listens intently. The transcript includes a warning about consequences and a reference to a lost hat.

“You lost a hat.” 24:13 · “You don't must do it.” 24:15 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 24:14 (passage 24:11–24:20); US record: No renewal found

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