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Great Guy · Beat 97 · permalink

Private office

29:01–29:11 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). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 29:0629:06

Play from 29:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 46 · shots 179–179. 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
  • man in dark suit, white shirt, tie, pocket square, neat hair, mid-30s, medium build visible
  • older man, dark suit, hand near chin, partially obscured visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit looks toward camera with a slight smirk. [frame:1]
Seen
telephone, filing cabinet, desk
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but controlled; themes: power dynamics, professional setting; style notes: medium close-up, high-contrast studio lighting, formal framing

A man in a suit is shown in a medium close-up, with another man visible in the background; the transcript includes a line asking if something feels better. No names, time of day, or period are established in this beat.

“Does that feel better?” 29:10 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 29:06 (passage 29:01–29:11); US record: No renewal found

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