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Meet John Doe · Beat 164 · permalink

Private office

44:47–44:49 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 44:4844:48

Play from 44:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 80 · shots 418–418. 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
  • man in dark suit, standing, holding telephone receiver visible
  • man seated at desk, wearing dark suit, head down visible
  • man in dark suit, partially visible in doorway, standing visible
Seen
{'item': 'wall clock showing approximately 10:10', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'telephone receiver', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'desk', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'doorway', 'frame': 1}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: communication, authority, waiting; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, medium shot framing, static camera

A man in a suit stands holding a telephone receiver to his ear while another man sits at a desk in the foreground. A third man is partially visible in the background doorway.

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 44:48 (passage 44:47–44:49); US record: No renewal found

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