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Meet John Doe · Beat 278 · permalink

Living room

1:22:22–1:23:37 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:23:001:23:00

Play from 1:22:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 129 · shots 679–679. 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
  • Mrs. Mitchell (named at t:82:29): woman, mid-30s, dark dress, styled hair, standing visible, audible
  • John (named at t:82:29): man, 30s-40s, light jacket, tie, holding hat, standing visible, audible
Seen happening
  • John and Mrs. Mitchell stand facing each other in a room with curtains and a sofa. [frame:1]
  • John holds his hat while speaking to Mrs. Mitchell. [frame:1]
Also said
“I came over here hoping to see her alone.” 82:47 · “My husband said, "I love you. Will you marry me?"” 83:28
Seen
hat, sofa, curtains
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate, hesitant; themes: personal revelation, unspoken feelings, goodbye; style notes: medium two-shot, soft lighting, curtains frame the background, characters in mid-frame, black-and-white film texture

A man and a woman stand in a dimly lit room with curtains and a sofa, exchanging goodbyes and personal reflections. The woman mentions her husband’s marriage proposal, and the man holds his hat while listening.

“- Good night, Mrs. Mitchell. - Good night, John.” 82:29 · “I'm kind of glad Ann isn't here.” 82:42 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 1:23:00 (passage 1:22:22–1:23:37); US record: No renewal found

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