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Meet John Doe · Beat 141 · permalink

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42:13–42:15 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 5 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 42:1442:14

Play from 42:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 61 · shots 386–386. 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
  • man wearing a fedora and dark coat, seen from behind visible
  • woman in a light-colored dress, standing in the background visible
  • man in a light-colored hat and suit, smiling visible
  • man in a dark suit and tie, standing with arms crossed visible
  • woman wearing a dark hat and coat, holding a small object visible
Seen
fedora hat [frame:1], light-colored dress [frame:1], dark suit and tie [frame:1], small object held by woman [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; style notes: medium shot, black-and-white, studio lighting, group composition with one figure facing away

A group of people, including a woman in a light dress and several men in hats and suits, are gathered indoors. One man in a fedora is seen from behind, facing the group.

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 42:14 (passage 42:13–42:15); US record: No renewal found

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