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Meet John Doe · Beat 138 · permalink

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40:59–41:01 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 41:0041:00

Play from 40:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 61 · shots 369–369. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, wearing a dark suit and hat, smiling visible
  • man, seen from behind, wearing a dark suit visible
  • person with feathered hat, partially visible visible
Seen
feathered hat [frame:1], dark suit [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: charged and social; themes: crowd, public persona, social gathering; style notes: high-contrast black and white, medium close-up, shallow depth of field emphasizing the central woman

A woman in a dark suit and hat smiles while surrounded by a crowd in a dimly lit interior. The scene is shot in black and white with high contrast lighting, focusing on her expression.

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 41:00 (passage 40:59–41:01); US record: No renewal found

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