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Meet John Doe · Beat 170 · permalink

Newsroom

46:01–46:10 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 46:0346:03Frame at 46:0746:07

Play from 46:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 83 · shots 433–434. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
newsroom (newsroom, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • woman, mid-20s to 30s, wearing a dark suit with a light shirt and a flower pin, medium build visible
  • man, bald, older, wearing dark clothing, seated visible
  • man, 30s to 40s, wearing a dark suit and tie, standing at a podium visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman stands beside a seated man while another man reads from a paper at a podium. [frame:1]
  • The man at the podium continues reading from the paper. [frame:2]
Seen
microphone [frame:2], podium [frame:2], paper [frame:2], flower pin [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious; themes: identity, public persona, media; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, staged podium setup

A woman in a suit stands beside a seated man while a man in a suit reads from a paper at a podium. The transcript includes lines spoken by characters identifying with an 'average man.'

“Because it seems to describe the average man.” 46:02 · “And that's me. And that's me.” 46:05 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 46:03 (passage 46:01–46:10); US record: No renewal found

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