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Meet John Doe · Beat 176 · permalink

Theatre

46:47–47:02 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 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 46:5346:53Frame at 47:0147:01

Play from 46:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 86 · shots 447–448. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
theatre (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in dark suit, standing, holding microphone visible, audible
  • Spencer (named at t:46:53): man in dark suit, seated, pointing at radio visible
  • audience members, seated, facing stage visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit points at a radio while another man speaks into a microphone. [frame:1]
  • A man stands at a podium on a stage before an audience. [frame:2]
Also said
“The speech will continue.” 47:00
Seen
radio, microphone, podium, audience
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: public speaking, audience disruption, media performance; style notes: black-and-white, medium and wide shots, stage lighting focused on speaker, audience in shadow

A man in a suit speaks into a microphone on a stage before an audience while another man points at a radio. The transcript indicates a heckler interrupted the event and the speech will continue.

“Spencer.” 46:53 · “Ladies and gentlemen, the disturbance you just heard was caused by someone in the audience who tried to heckle Mr. Doe.” 46:54 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 46:53 (passage 46:47–47:02); US record: No renewal found

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