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Meet John Doe · Beat 227 · permalink

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1:03:03–1:03:27 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; 5 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 1:03:041:03:04Frame at 1:03:101:03:10Frame at 1:03:201:03:20

Play from 1:03:03 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 568–570. 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, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • man, mid-30s to 40s, medium build, wearing a cardigan over a collared shirt and tie, dark hair visible, audible
  • older man, balding, wearing a suit and tie, holding his hand to his ear visible
  • man, 30s, wearing a white Red Cross uniform with cap and tie visible
  • woman, 20s-30s, wearing a Red Cross uniform with cap visible
  • man, 30s-40s, wearing a suit, partially visible behind p3 visible
Also said
“If you ask me, he says they're starving. Old man Delaney has been bringing his furniture over to my place at night.” 63:18 · “one piece at a time and selling it.” 63:25
Seen
Red Cross poster, Red Cross uniform with cap, cardigan, suit and tie
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious, concerned; themes: community hardship, charity, economic distress; style notes: medium close-up and group shots, studio lighting, black-and-white film, period costume

A man in a cardigan speaks about neighbors' hardships, while a group including a man in a Red Cross uniform listens. The scene takes place indoors, with a Red Cross poster visible in the background.

“And then he tells us about how they cancelled their milk last week.” 63:08 · “peeked in under the blinds and found the house was empty.” 63:15 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 1:03:04 (passage 1:03:03–1:03:27); US record: No renewal found

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