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Meet John Doe · Beat 222 · permalink

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1:00:45–1:01:05 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 8 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 1:00:491:00:49Frame at 1:00:591:00:59

Play from 1:00:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 106 · shots 549–550. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a patterned tie and coat, standing among others visible
  • man in a white uniform with dark trim and a cap, addressing a crowd visible
  • woman in dark clothing and hat, visible behind p1 visible
  • man in dark suit and hat, partially visible on left visible
  • woman in dark dress, visible in crowd behind p2 visible
  • man speaking off-screen, referring to yelling at Mr. Smithers audible
  • woman speaking off-screen, prompting the man to yell louder audible
  • Mr. Smithers (named at t:60:45): Mr. Smithers, mentioned in dialogue but not visible mentioned
Also said
“She said louder, louder. He didn't hear you.” 60:56 · “So in a voice you could have heard in the next county, I yell, "Good morning, Mr. Smithers!"” 61:00
Seen
framed pictures on wall, white uniform with dark trim and cap, patterned tie, dark suit and hat, sign with red cross and 'JOIN!' visible in background
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and comedic; themes: public address, miscommunication, social awkwardness; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, staged crowd composition

A man in a patterned tie and coat stands among a group in an interior space while another man in a white uniform addresses a crowd. The transcript includes a character yelling 'Good morning, Mr. Smithers!' twice, once after being prompted by his wife.

“And I figured, well, heck, I can't lose anything. So I yelled over to him, good morning, Mr. Smithers.” 60:45 · “He went right on pounding his thunder. Was eye-burnt. So I turned around to give my wife a dirty look and...” 60:51 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 1:00:49 (passage 1:00:45–1:01:05); US record: No renewal found

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