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Meet John Doe · Beat 241 · permalink

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1:07:41–1:08:09 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name 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 1:07:431:07:43Frame at 1:07:461:07:46Frame at 1:08:001:08:00Frame at 1:08:071:08:07

Play from 1:07:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 112 · shots 603–607. 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:4
People
  • man, adult, medium build, wearing a dark suit and tie visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit is visible looking off-camera. [frame:4]
  • A sign reading 'JOHN DOE' is illuminated. [frame:1]
  • A sign reading 'JOHN DOE CLUB' is visible on a wooden structure. [frame:2]
  • A map showing Indiana and surrounding areas is displayed. [frame:3]
Also said
“I'm going to go.” 68:03
Seen
sign reading 'JOHN DOE', sign reading 'JOHN DOE CLUB', map showing Indiana, wooden wall or structure, ladder or wooden structure
On screen
[{'text': 'JOHN DOE', 'frame': 1}, {'text': 'JOHN DOE CLUB', 'frame': 2}, {'text': 'INDIANA', 'frame': 3}]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or unresolved; themes: identity, departure, organized movement; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, medium close-up on person, static shots of signs and map

A man in a suit is visible in a dimly lit interior; signs reading 'JOHN DOE' and 'JOHN DOE CLUB' are shown, along with a map of Indiana. A transcript line states 'I'm going to go.'

“I'm not sure what you're doing.” 67:43 · “I'm going to go.” 67:50 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 1:07:43 (passage 1:07:41–1:08:09); US record: No renewal found

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