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Meet John Doe · Beat 261 · permalink

Bedroom

1:14:39–1:15:03 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:14:411:14:41Frame at 1:14:541:14:54

Play from 1:14:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 121 · shots 643–644. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • John Doe (named at t:74:53): man in dark suit and tie, mid-adult, medium build visible, audible
  • woman in dark coat, mid-adult, standing near bed visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit speaks to a woman in a bedroom. [frame:1]
  • The woman stands near a bed while the man sits facing her. [frame:2]
Also said
“But the real me, John Doe, or...” 74:53 · “That is, Long John Willoughby.” 74:55
Seen
suit [frame:1], bed [frame:2], suitcase [frame:2], framed picture [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and reflective; themes: identity, past relationships, role confusion; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up framing, high-contrast lighting emphasizing facial expressions

A man in a suit speaks to a woman in a dimly lit room; she stands near a bed while he sits. The dialogue references a past wedding and identity confusion involving 'John Doe' and 'Long John Willoughby'.

“I was the guy up there doing the marrying. You know, the justice of peace or something. You were...” 74:42 · “Well, yes, I was, but I was your father then, see?” 74:49 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 1:14:41 (passage 1:14:39–1:15:03); US record: No renewal found

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