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Meet John Doe · Beat 208 · permalink

Restaurant

54:38–55:00 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 54:4954:49

Play from 54:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 103 · shots 510–510. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
restaurant (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a fedora and dark suit, profile view visible
  • man with light hair, wearing a light shirt and bow tie, leaning forward with open mouth visible, audible
  • partially visible person wearing a dark hat, back to camera visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a fedora speaks to a man leaning forward with an expressive face. [frame:1]
Also said
“- Cream and coffee and donuts, I know.” 54:48 · “Seekers! A pair. Think of the pair.” 54:52
Seen
fedora, bow tie, dark suit
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lively and conversational; themes: food ordering, casual social interaction, dialogue-driven scene; style notes: medium close-up, black and white, studio lighting, focused on character interaction

A man in a hat speaks to another man who is leaning forward with an expressive face, while a third person is partially visible. The dialogue includes ordering food and calling out to someone named 'Ma' and 'Seekers'.

“- What'd it be, Jeff? - I've got a couple of sticks about that big and about that thick.” 54:39 · “Hey, with hash brown potatoes and tomatoes,” 54:43 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 54:49 (passage 54:38–55:00); US record: No renewal found

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