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Meet John Doe · Beat 258 · permalink

Living room

1:12:16–1:12:41 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; 2 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 1:12:291:12:29

Play from 1:12:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 120 · shots 640–640. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, standing, wearing dark top and light pants, mid-20s to 30s visible
  • man, seated in foreground, back to camera, wearing dark jacket visible, audible
Also said
“I had a crazy dream last night.” 72:34 · “It was about you.” 72:39
Seen
desk [frame:1], chair [frame:1], framed picture on wall [frame:1], curtained window [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: quiet, intimate, slightly tense; themes: personal revelation, dream symbolism, unspoken tension; style notes: low-key lighting, medium shot, shallow depth of field, black-and-white film grain

A man and a woman are in a dimly lit room; the woman stands near a desk while the man sits in the foreground. The woman speaks about having a dream about the man.

“You care if I sit down out here?” 72:19 · “No.” 72:21 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 1:12:29 (passage 1:12:16–1:12:41); US record: No renewal found

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