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Meet John Doe · Beat 264 · permalink

Private office

1:16:24–1:16:44 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 1:16:301:16:30Frame at 1:16:391:16:39

Play from 1:16:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 122 · shots 649–650. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, mustache, mid-30s, medium build visible, audible
  • Ann (named at t:76:35): woman in dark hat and coat, mid-30s, visible in profile visible, audible
Also said
“About $300,000.” 76:31 · “and get up there, John Doe. Clubs are what they do.” 76:41
Seen
teapot, table, radio
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and reflective; themes: media influence, public engagement, personal responsibility; style notes: close-up framing, high contrast lighting, intimate scale

Two people are seated at a table in a dimly lit interior, discussing numbers and motivations behind public gatherings. One person suggests using the radio while the other reflects on why people attend clubs.

“How many people do you think we've talked to already?” 76:25 · “I'll try the radio.” 76:28 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 1:16:30 (passage 1:16:24–1:16:44); US record: No renewal found

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