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Meet John Doe · Beat 110 · permalink

Living room

35:19–35:35 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 35:2335:23Frame at 35:2735:27Frame at 35:3035:30Frame at 35:3435:34

Play from 35:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 48 · shots 295–298. 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 wearing dark coat, bow tie, fedora hat visible
  • man wearing dark coat, mustache, fedora hat, holding hat in hand visible
  • man wearing light vest, tie, cap, standing near mirror visible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand in a room, one holding his hat. [frame:1]
  • A man in a vest stands near a mirror and flower arrangement. [frame:2]
  • Two men walk through a doorway into the room. [frame:3]
  • A man in a vest extends his hand toward another man. [frame:4]
Seen
fedora hat, bow tie, mirror, flower arrangement, lamp, doorway, rug, cap
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or anticipatory; themes: social interaction, urban vs. rural life, waiting or endurance; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, studio lighting, static camera

Two men in hats and coats are seen in an interior room with furniture and flowers; a third man in a vest stands near a mirror. One man speaks about enduring until after Christmas and mentions not hearing a train whistle in two weeks.

“I don't know how you're gonna stand it around here till after Christmas.” 35:24 · “I'll bet you ain't heard a train whistle in two weeks.” 35:30 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 35:23 (passage 35:19–35:35); US record: No renewal found

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