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Great Guy · Beat 87 · permalink

Private office

25:57–26:05 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; 3 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 26:0126:01

Play from 25:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 157–157. 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 wearing a dark suit and fedora, seated, leaning back visible
  • man wearing a lighter suit and fedora, seated, hands clasped visible
  • man wearing a hat, seen from behind, partially visible on right visible
Also said
“We can sit here and think.” 26:01 · “Try thinking red.” 26:04
Seen
fedora hats [frame:1], suits [frame:1], chair [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and contemplative; themes: decision-making, waiting, psychological suggestion; style notes: low-key lighting, medium shot, static framing, black-and-white film aesthetic

Three men in hats are seated in a dimly lit interior; one speaks about getting something over with and suggests thinking red. No names are spoken, and no objects beyond clothing and furniture are clearly visible.

“Well, what are we waiting for?” 25:58 · “Well, come on, let's get it over with.” 25:59 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 26:01 (passage 25:57–26:05); US record: No renewal found

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