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Great Guy · Beat 82 · permalink

Private office

24:20–24:54 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; 1 name 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 24:3724:37

Play from 24:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 41 · shots 151–151. 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
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark suit stands in a hallway near a door marked 'Cavanaugh'. [frame:1]
Also said
“You want to meet me coming down?” 24:32 · “I didn't have a phone, eh, sir?” 24:45
Seen
door with sign 'Cavanaugh' [frame:1], wall-mounted light fixture [frame:1], light switch on wall [frame:1]
On screen
Cavanaugh
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, authority, corruption; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, studio set with visible door signage

A man in a dark suit stands in a hallway near a door marked 'Cavanaugh' while dialogue references threats and a one-way street. No names are spoken in this beat that can be assigned to visible persons.

“You mean you'll do to me what you did to Joe Green? I'll take it easy. Now, listen, I don't tell you to heat on for anybody who threatens my men.” 24:20 · “or try to slip money on my desk, Lada. It's a one-way street, Cavanaugh.” 24:26 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 24:37 (passage 24:20–24:54); US record: No renewal found

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