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Meet John Doe · Beat 263 · permalink

Private office

1:15:44–1:16:24 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:15:501:15:50Frame at 1:16:031:16:03Frame at 1:16:171:16:17

Play from 1:15:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 121 · shots 646–648. 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
  • man in dark suit, seated, mid-adult, medium build visible, audible
  • man in hat and dark coat, standing, mid-adult, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark suit is seated and speaking. [frame:1]
  • A man in a hat and coat enters and stands in the doorway. [frame:2]
  • The man in the hat and coat is seen from behind, moving toward a doorway. [frame:3]
Also said
“Well, if you're a true wagoner, come on, let's get going. OK, fellas, right in here. You go out the side, and there's a bunch of autograph seekers out front. We'll be down with the bags in a minute.” 76:03 · “Hi, Benny. When's our plane take off again? Couple of minutes.” 76:20
Seen
desk [frame:1], typewriter [frame:1], framed picture on wall [frame:1], doorway [frame:2], hat [frame:2], coat [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and hurried; themes: departure, conflict, media attention; style notes: low-key lighting, medium shots, static camera, period costume

A man in a dark suit speaks while seated in a dimly lit room; another man in a hat and coat enters and stands in the doorway. The transcript includes dialogue about 'whacking' someone and preparing to leave for a plane.

“Go to it, Pop.” 75:45 · “Come on down here and whack her yourself.” 75:51 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 1:15:50 (passage 1:15:44–1:16:24); US record: No renewal found

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