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Meet John Doe · Beat 173 · permalink

Newsroom

46:43–46:44 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 46:4346:43

Play from 46:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 83 · shots 444–444. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
newsroom (newsroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man standing at podium, wearing dark suit, medium build, short hair visible
  • man seated beside podium, wearing dark suit, medium build, visible profile visible
  • figures in background, indistinct, wearing dark clothing visible
Seen
microphones [frame:1], podium [frame:1], papers on podium [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious; themes: public address, media, formal gathering; style notes: medium shot, high contrast lighting, static framing, black and white

A man stands at a podium with microphones while another man sits beside him; several other figures are visible in the background. The scene is dimly lit and appears to be indoors.

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 46:43 (passage 46:43–46:44); US record: No renewal found

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