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Meet John Doe · Beat 108 · permalink

Private office

35:10–35:15 Registered 1941

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; 4 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 35:1135:11Frame at 35:1435:14

Play from 35:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 47 · shots 292–293. 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, bow tie, fedora hat, medium build visible
  • man in dark suit, fedora hat, medium build visible
  • man in light-colored suit, running or lunging visible
  • person seated in background, wearing hat visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a light suit moves quickly across the room. [frame:1]
  • A man in a dark suit and bow tie turns with a surprised expression. [frame:2]
Seen
fedora hat [frame:1], bow tie [frame:2], office furniture [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: sudden disruption, social formality; style notes: medium close-up, high-contrast lighting, static camera

Two men in suits and hats stand in a room with other people visible in the background; one man reacts with surprise as another moves quickly past. A brief exclamation is heard.

“Oh!” 35:11 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 Meet John Doe (1941) at 35:11 (passage 35:10–35:15); US record: No renewal found

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