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Great Guy · Beat 96 · permalink

Private office

28:14–29:01 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 28:1828:18Frame at 28:2828:28Frame at 28:5028:50Frame at 28:5628:56

Play from 28:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 46 · shots 174–178. 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
  • Tommy (named at t:28:14): man in dark suit, white shirt, tie, neat hair, mid-adult visible, audible
  • older man in dark uniform with badge, balding, seated visible
  • Johnny Cage (named at t:28:24): man in dark suit, white shirt, tie, neat hair, mid-adult, with a bruise or mark on his cheek visible, audible
  • man in dark fedora, mustache, patterned tie, mid-adult visible, audible
  • man in police uniform, standing visible
Seen happening
  • Several men, including police officers, stand in an office facing each other. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit with a bruise on his cheek looks toward someone off-screen. [frame:2]
  • The same man with the bruise looks slightly downward while listening. [frame:3]
  • A man in a fedora and patterned tie speaks to another man. [frame:4]
Also said
“Well, you can't arrest a guy for having red hair.” 28:31 · “Now be careful.” 29:00
Seen
police uniform [frame:1], fedora hat [frame:4], patterned tie [frame:4], bruise or mark on cheek [frame:2], office furniture (desk, filing cabinet) [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: authority, accusation, identity, legal trouble; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups and two-shots, studio lighting, static camera

A man in a suit is confronted by police officers and another man in a fedora in what appears to be an office; dialogue references a stick-up, a red-haired man, a coat, and a gun. One man is identified by speech as Johnny Cage, Chief Deputy of Wage and Major.

“Why, hello, Tommy. What are you doing here?” 28:14 · “Sure Johnny Cage. Chief Deputy of Wage and Major.” 28:24 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 28:18 (passage 28:14–29:01); US record: No renewal found

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