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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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 51:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 97 · shots 493–494. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- studio (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man, mid-30s, medium build, wearing dark suit and tie visible, audible
- woman, mid-30s, medium build, dark wavy hair, wearing dark jacket visible
- Seen happening
- A man stands at a podium reading from a paper into a microphone. [frame:1]
- A woman is shown in a close-up, looking slightly to her right. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “The meek?” 51:48
- Seen
- microphone [frame:1], podium [frame:1], paper [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn, rhetorical; themes: public speech, civic virtue, individual responsibility; style notes: studio lighting, medium close-up on speaker, cut to reaction shot of woman, formal framing
A man in a suit reads from a paper at a podium with a microphone; a woman is shown in a separate shot. The transcript includes a speech about John Doe and goodwill, and a reference to 'the meek'.
“If each and every John Doe would make that spirit last 365 days out of the year, we'd develop such a strength, we'd create such a tidal wave of goodwill that no human force could stand against it.” 51:32 · “Yes, sir, my friends.” 51:46 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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