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Great Guy · Beat 84 · permalink

Vehicle interior

25:25–25:49 Released 1936; registered 1937

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 25:3025:30Frame at 25:4225:42

Play from 25:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 43 · shots 153–154. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark coat and fedora, visible in vehicle interior visible
  • man in dark coat and fedora, seen from side in vehicle interior visible
  • man in suit and hat, standing in dim room visible
  • man in suit and hat, seated in dim room visible
  • man in hat, seated in dim room, partially obscured visible
Also said
“He's going our way.” 25:30 · “Amen.” 25:35
Seen
fedora hat [frame:1], car interior [frame:1], desk or counter [frame:2], hanging lamp [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: authority, control, group dynamics; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, medium close-ups and medium shots, static camera

Two men in hats are seen inside a vehicle interior, followed by a scene in a dimly lit room with three men, one standing and two seated. Spoken lines indicate a dispute over direction, with one man asserting control over another's path.

“Where do you think you're going?” 25:26 · “You're going your way. No, he ain't.” 25:28 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 25:30 (passage 25:25–25:49); US record: No renewal found

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