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Meet John Doe · Beat 242 · permalink

Town square

1:08:09–1:08:11 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 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 1:08:101:08:10

Play from 1:08:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 113 · shots 608–608. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
town_square (town square, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, mustache, straw hat, light shirt visible
  • man in cowboy hat, holding a camera visible
  • man in light-colored hat, partially visible visible
Seen
straw hat [frame:1], cowboy hat [frame:1], camera [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: crowded, public, observational; themes: public gathering, media presence, everyday life; style notes: close-up framing, high contrast black-and-white, shallow depth of field focusing on foreground subject

A close-up of an older man with a mustache and straw hat, surrounded by other men in hats, in a crowded outdoor setting. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 1:08:10 (passage 1:08:09–1:08:11); US record: No renewal found

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