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Great Guy · Beat 93 · permalink

Police station

27:19–27:54 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; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 27:2327:23Frame at 27:2927:29Frame at 27:3327:33Frame at 27:4627:46

Play from 27:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 46 · shots 166–169. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
police_station (police station, interior) evidence: frame:4
People
  • man in checkered shirt, lying or slumped, appears unconscious or intoxicated visible
  • police officer in uniform and cap, holding p1 visible
  • man in fedora and overcoat, standing, looking down visible
  • man in dark coat and hat, standing beside p3 visible
  • man in fur-collared coat and hat, standing in group visible
  • man in fedora, partially visible, standing near p3 visible
Seen happening
  • A man is being held by a police officer in a dim room. [frame:1]
  • A man in a hat is being held by another man while looking downward. [frame:2]
  • A group of men, including one in a fur coat, stand together in a crowded interior. [frame:3]
  • A police officer holds a man who appears unconscious or intoxicated. [frame:4]
Also said
“Guy with red hair, wearing a flat overcoat, pulls a hole up and it snoozes to you, huh?” 27:47 · “Yeah, and a gun is found in your pocket.” 27:51
Seen
police uniform, fedora hats, fur-collared coat, checkered shirt, dark overcoat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and accusatory; themes: suspicion, law enforcement, intoxication, confrontation; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing on faces and upper bodies, high contrast shadows, typical of 1930s noir-influenced crime drama

A man is being held by police officers in a dimly lit interior space; dialogue suggests he is suspected of being drunk and carrying a gun. No named characters appear, and the setting appears to be a police station or similar official holding area.

“Come on, give him that hat away, hey, man.” 27:25 · “Don't you see the liquor's cracked all over him?” 27:31 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 27:23 (passage 27:19–27:54); US record: No renewal found

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