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Meet John Doe · Beat 168 · permalink

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45:41–45:42 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 45:4245:42

Play from 45:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 82 · shots 431–431. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior)
People
  • woman with dark hair, wearing a dark dress or coat, visible in profile visible
  • man with bald head, wearing a suit and tie, seated in foreground visible
  • man standing in background, wearing a suit and bow tie visible
Seen
suit and tie [frame:1], bow tie [frame:1], dark dress or coat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious or tense; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, high contrast lighting, formal composition

A woman and two men are visible in a dimly lit interior space; no dialogue or action is described in the transcript for this beat. The setting appears to be a formal or public room with multiple people present.

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 45:42 (passage 45:41–45:42); US record: No renewal found

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