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Great Guy · Beat 9 · permalink

Hospital

4:36–4:50 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 4:434:43

Play from 4:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 7 · shots 18–18. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
hospital (hospital, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, seated, middle-aged, medium build visible, audible
  • man lying in bed, head wrapped in bandages, partially covered by sheets visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit sits beside a hospital bed. [frame:1]
  • The man in bed is bandaged and appears injured. [frame:1]
Also said
“Okay, Papa, I'm going to have it.” 4:40 · “I'm going to make you cheap, don't you?” 4:48
Seen
hospital bed [frame:1], bandages [frame:1], suit [frame:1], chair [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, power dynamics, hospitalization; style notes: static medium shot, high contrast lighting, studio set

A man in a suit sits beside a hospital bed where another man lies under covers; dialogue suggests a confrontation or negotiation. No names are spoken, and the setting is clearly a hospital room.

“I'd like to take his measure.” 4:36 · “I'm going to go with a little choice.” 4:38 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 4:43 (passage 4:36–4:50); US record: No renewal found

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