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Meet John Doe · Beat 125 · permalink

Living room

37:01–37:13 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 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 37:0237:02Frame at 37:0337:03Frame at 37:0737:07Frame at 37:1137:11

Play from 37:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 57 · shots 323–327. 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:4
People
  • man in dark suit, tie, and fedora, medium build, smiling visible
  • man in light shirt, vest, and cap, medium build, gesturing with right hand visible
  • man in dark suit and hat, standing, holding hat in hand visible
  • man in dark suit, seated in background visible
Seen happening
  • Man in fedora looks up and smiles. [frame:1]
  • Man in cap gestures with his right hand while speaking. [frame:2]
  • Man in fedora smiles broadly. [frame:3]
  • Two men in suits stand in a room; one holds a hat. [frame:4]
Also said
“What's this, the end of the eighth? Ninth.” 37:07
Seen
fedora, cap, vest, ornate furniture, circular rug, hat held in hand
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light and conversational; themes: social interaction, sports reference in dialogue; style notes: classic black-and-white studio lighting, medium close-ups and wide shots, formal attire suggests 1940s setting

A man in a fedora and suit is shown in close-up, smiling and looking upward. Another man in a cap and vest gestures while speaking. A wider shot shows two men in suits standing in a room with ornate furniture, one holding a hat. The transcript includes dialogue about an inning in a game.

“Did you get him?” 37:02 · “- You're out? - Well...” 37:04 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 37:02 (passage 37:01–37:13); US record: No renewal found

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