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Great Guy · Beat 98 · permalink

Living room

29:11–30:10 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 29:3729:37Frame at 30:0630:06

Play from 29:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 47 · shots 180–181. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, seated, facing woman visible, audible
  • woman in dark dress and hat, seated, facing man visible, audible
  • older man in dark suit, standing, entering scene visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman are seated and talking in a room. [frame:1]
  • A third man enters and stands near the seated pair. [frame:2]
Also said
“I've got to be at the mayor's office in about five minutes.” 30:03 · “the peanut.” 30:09
Seen
plaid armchair [frame:1], patterned wallpaper [frame:1], framed picture on wall [frame:1], vase with flowers [frame:1], dark suit [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict, social identity, class tension; style notes: medium shots, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s studio films

A man and a woman are seated and talking in a room with patterned wallpaper; a second man enters and stands nearby. The dialogue suggests a tense conversation about aggression and Irish identity, with one character mentioning a need to be at the mayor's office soon.

“You know, Johnny, in a way...” 29:18 · “You're too aggressive.” 29:28 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 29:37 (passage 29:11–30:10); US record: No renewal found

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