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Meet John Doe · Beat 150 · permalink

Newsroom

44:00–44:01 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 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 44:0044:00

Play from 44:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 66 · shots 404–404. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
newsroom (newsroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and tie, clean-shaven, medium build visible
  • man in dark suit, seen from back/side, partial view visible
Seen
podium [frame:1], microphone [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense anticipation; themes: broadcast media, preparation for public address; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast lighting, studio set with shallow depth of field

A man in a suit stands behind a podium in a dimly lit interior space while another man is partially visible to his right. A voice says 'Stand by.'

“Stand by.” 44:00 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 44:00 (passage 44:00–44:01); US record: No renewal found

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