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Meet John Doe · Beat 269 · permalink

Private office

1:18:27–1:18:57 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:18:281:18:28Frame at 1:18:361:18:36Frame at 1:18:411:18:41Frame at 1:18:551:18:55

Play from 1:18:27 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 123 · shots 658–663. 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:2
People
  • Patrick Lanny (named at t:78:53): man in dark suit and tie, mid-adult, medium build visible, audible
  • woman with dark hair, wearing dark dress, mid-adult visible
Seen happening
  • Hands hold a tray of chocolates. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit stands behind a table with candles. [frame:2]
  • A woman sits at a table facing the man. [frame:3]
  • The man holds a napkin while seated at the table. [frame:4]
Also said
“All right, Patrick Lanny.” 78:53 · “Here it is.” 78:56
Seen
tray of chocolates [frame:1], candles [frame:2], table [frame:2], napkin [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and tense; themes: negotiation, formal dining, contract discussion; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal table setting

A man in a suit stands at a table with candles while a woman sits across from him; he speaks and later holds a napkin. A close-up shows hands holding a tray of chocolates. The dialogue suggests a contract and a direct conversation.

“Oh, it's lovely. And a new contract goes with it.” 78:33 · “Come on, Springett. You've got something on your mind.” 78:43 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 1:18:28 (passage 1:18:27–1:18:57); US record: No renewal found

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