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Meet John Doe · Beat 236 · permalink

Private office

1:06:04–1:06:21 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; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:06:061:06:06Frame at 1:06:121:06:12Frame at 1:06:181:06:18

Play from 1:06:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 109 · shots 591–593. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman wearing a dark hat and fur-trimmed coat, mid-30s, medium build visible
  • man in dark suit and tie, older, heavyset, balding visible
  • man in light shirt, patterned tie, and jacket, mid-30s, lean build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Three people stand together in a room. [frame:1]
  • The woman and older man are shown in close-up, looking serious. [frame:3]
Also said
“Look, all those swell people think I'm going to jump off a building or something.” 66:15 · “I never had any such idea.” 66:18
Seen
hat [frame:1], fur coat [frame:1], patterned tie [frame:2], framed picture on wall [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confused; themes: misunderstanding, public perception, personal integrity; style notes: medium shots and close-ups under studio lighting, high contrast black-and-white, formal framing

Three people are in a room; one man speaks about being misunderstood and not planning to jump off a building. The others listen, with one woman and one man visible in close-up.

“Gee whiz. I'm all mixed up.” 66:06 · “I don't get it.” 66:12 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 1:06:06 (passage 1:06:04–1:06:21); US record: No renewal found

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