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Meet John Doe · Beat 146 · permalink

Private office

42:42–43:07 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 42:5142:51Frame at 43:0443:04

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

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 63 · shots 395–396. 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
  • woman, dark hair styled in braids, wearing dark clothing, mid-20s to 30s, average build visible, audible
  • man, partially visible in profile, wearing dark suit, mid-30s to 40s, average build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Woman looks at man while speaking about her father. [frame:1]
  • Woman smiles slightly while continuing to speak to the man. [frame:2]
Also said
“She said to look into your eyes.” 43:04 · “That I'd see father there.” 43:05
Seen
dark suit [frame:1], braided hairstyle [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate, reflective; themes: legacy, identity, fatherhood, inspiration; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, focused on facial expressions

A woman speaks to a man, referencing her father and how people listened to him, suggesting the man can inspire others too. She recalls her mother’s comment about seeing her father in the man’s eyes.

“He was my father, John.” 42:52 · “And they'll listen to you, too.” 42:56 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 42:51 (passage 42:42–43:07); US record: No renewal found

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