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Meet John Doe · Beat 118 · permalink

Private office

36:18–36:19 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name 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 36:1936:19

Play from 36:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 54 · shots 310–310. 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 wearing a fedora and dark suit, mid-adult, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • A man covers his mouth with his hand. [frame:1]
Seen
fedora hat [frame:1], dark suit [frame:1], framed picture on wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or contemplative; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up, high-contrast lighting, studio set

A man in a fedora and dark suit is shown in a medium close-up, covering his mouth with his hand. The setting appears to be an interior room with a framed picture on the wall.

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 36:19 (passage 36:18–36:19); US record: No renewal found

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