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Meet John Doe · Beat 214 · permalink

Street

56:38–57:08 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; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 56:4056:40Frame at 56:4456:44Frame at 56:5356:53Frame at 57:0257:02

Play from 56:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 106 · shots 521–525. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark coat and hat, visible in vehicle visible
  • woman with light hair, visible in vehicle visible
  • Mr. Martin (named at t:56:58): man in suit and tie, among crowd, possibly official visible
  • man in police uniform, visible in crowd visible
  • man in hat, visible in crowd visible
  • woman in light hat, visible in crowd visible
Seen happening
  • Crowd gathers outside building. [frame:1]
  • Police and civilians visible in crowd. [frame:2]
  • Man and woman sit in vehicle, woman speaking. [frame:3]
  • Crowd presses forward, some wearing hats, police present. [frame:4]
Also said
“Here I come. Here, Mr. Martin.” 56:58 · “- Come here, Hawkins! - Get me close! - Let me go, you darn tool right in there! Mr. Martin! - Mr. Martin!” 57:02
Seen
car, police uniforms, hats
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and anticipatory; themes: public spectacle, media attention, crowd dynamics; style notes: black-and-white, medium and close shots, high contrast lighting, crowd framing suggests public spectacle

A crowd gathers outside a building as people call out to someone named Mr. Martin, who is approaching. A woman and a man are seen in a vehicle, and police officers are present among the crowd.

“Now, everybody, on your ding, you see?” 56:42 · “Let me talk to him. All right, but present it to him as a great cause for the common man.” 56:49 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 56:40 (passage 56:38–57:08); US record: No renewal found

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