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Meet John Doe · Beat 119 · permalink

Living room

36:19–36:25 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 36:2136:21Frame at 36:2436:24

Play from 36:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 55 · shots 311–312. 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
  • wearing a hat and vest, mid-motion, blurred by movement visible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, seen from behind visible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, seen from behind, standing beside p2 visible
  • man in light-colored hat and dark coat, walking away down hallway visible
Seen happening
  • A person in a hat and vest moves rapidly across the room. [frame:1]
  • The person walks away down a hallway, viewed from behind two men in hats. [frame:2]
Seen
vase with flowers, lamp, doorway, hallway
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: movement, observation, departure; style notes: medium shot with shallow depth of field; high contrast black-and-white; framing emphasizes movement and observation

A person in a hat and vest moves quickly through a room with others present. The scene is viewed from behind two men in hats, watching the person walk away down a hallway.

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 36:21 (passage 36:19–36:25); US record: No renewal found

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