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26:32–26:40 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). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 26:3526:35Frame at 26:3926:39

Play from 26:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 162–163. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, adult, medium build, wearing a dark suit, white shirt, tie, and fedora hat visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a fedora smiles slightly at the camera. [frame:1]
  • The man turns his head to the side, mouth open as if speaking. [frame:2]
Seen
fedora hat [frame:1], suit [frame:1], tie [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: sardonic or ironic; themes: law enforcement, criminal justice; style notes: black-and-white close-up, high contrast lighting, studio set

A man in a suit and fedora is shown in two close-up shots, speaking. The transcript includes a line about 'some mugwet's breaking the law.' No named characters or specific location are established.

“This is very interesting.” 26:33 · “That's for some mugwet's breaking the law.” 26:35 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 26:35 (passage 26:32–26:40); US record: No renewal found

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