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Meet John Doe · Beat 161 · permalink

Newsroom

44:29–44:40 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 44:3544:35

Play from 44:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 77 · shots 415–415. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
newsroom (newsroom, interior) evidence: t:44:33
People
  • man in dark suit, tie, glasses, middle-aged, medium build visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, tie, younger, side profile visible visible
  • man in background, balding, glasses, suit visible
Seen happening
  • A man in glasses speaks to another man while others look on. [frame:1]
Seen
suit [frame:1], tie [frame:1], glasses [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: media, command, press; style notes: tight framing on two men, high contrast lighting, black and white film stock, background figures slightly out of focus

A man in a suit and glasses speaks to another man in a suit; the transcript indicates he is giving an order to contact the Chronicle about extras. The scene is dimly lit and appears to be indoors with other people visible in the background.

“Phone the Chronicle. Tell them to start getting those extras out.” 44:33 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 44:35 (passage 44:29–44:40); US record: No renewal found

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