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Meet John Doe · Beat 207 · permalink

Bar

54:33–54:38 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 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 54:3654:36

Play from 54:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 102 · shots 509–509. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man seen from back, wearing light-colored shirt and dark trousers, possibly with suspenders visible
  • man in dark hat and coat, seated at bar counter visible
  • man in fedora and suit, standing at bar counter visible
  • man in dark hat, seated at bar counter visible
Seen
bar counter [frame:1], bottles and glasses on counter [frame:1], hats worn by patrons [frame:1], window with light behind bar [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, observational; themes: social gathering, everyday life; style notes: medium shot from behind subject, high contrast black-and-white lighting, typical 1940s film composition

A man in a light shirt and dark trousers stands with his back to the camera at a bar counter, facing other patrons. The bar interior is dimly lit with several men seated or standing at the counter.

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 54:36 (passage 54:33–54:38); US record: No renewal found

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