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Meet John Doe · Beat 154 · permalink

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44:07–44:08 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 44:0844:08

Play from 44:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 70 · shots 408–408. 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, mid-20s to 30s, wearing a dark suit with a flower pin, wavy hair visible
  • man, mid-30s to 40s, wearing a tuxedo with bow tie, standing behind p1 visible
  • man, older, balding, wearing a dark suit, seated in foreground visible
Seen
flower pin [frame:1], tuxedo with bow tie [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, composed; themes: public gathering, formal attire, social hierarchy; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting with high contrast, black-and-white film, staged composition

A woman in a suit stands beside a man in a tuxedo; another man is seated in the foreground. The setting appears to be an indoor public space with dim lighting and other figures in the background.

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 44:08 (passage 44:07–44:08); US record: No renewal found

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