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Meet John Doe · Beat 114 · permalink

Private office

35:47–35:48 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 35:4835:48

Play from 35:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 51 · shots 303–303. 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, mid-30s to 40s, wearing a dark suit, tie, and fedora hat, smiling visible
Seen
fedora hat [frame:1], suit and tie [frame:1], framed picture on wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral to slightly positive; style notes: medium close-up, studio lighting, black-and-white film, formal attire suggests a professional or public setting

A man in a suit and fedora smiles at the camera in an interior setting. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 35:48 (passage 35:47–35:48); US record: No renewal found

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