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Great Guy · Beat 94 · permalink

Police station

27:54–28:12 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 27:5927:59Frame at 28:0528:05Frame at 28:0928:09

Play from 27:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 46 · shots 170–172. 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:2
People
  • man in dark suit and tie, mid-30s, medium build, speaking animatedly visible, audible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, seen from back or side, standing visible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, standing behind p1, older, stern expression visible
  • older man in police uniform with badge, seated at desk visible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, entering through doorway visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit speaks to two others in hats. [frame:1]
  • A uniformed officer sits at a desk listening. [frame:2]
  • A man in a hat enters through a doorway. [frame:3]
Also said
“I'll say it 14 more.” 28:02 · “Bring in the complainer.” 28:05
Seen
fedora hats [frame:1], police badge [frame:2], wooden door with glass panels [frame:3], wall-mounted light fixture with two bulbs [frame:3], framed picture of a building [frame:3], desk with papers and telephone [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: legal confrontation, complaint and authority, repetition as emphasis; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups and medium shots, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s crime dramas, static camera

A man in a suit speaks animatedly to two others in hats in an office; a uniformed officer sits at a desk; another man in a hat enters through a door. The transcript includes a complaint about being assaulted and left in the gutter, repeated multiple times, and a question about getting over a pass.

“What do you want me to say? I'm Johnny R.'s frame.” 27:54 · “They poured liquor all over my clothes, hit me over the head, left me lying in the gutter. You said that 14 times.” 27:57 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 27:59 (passage 27:54–28:12); US record: No renewal found

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