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Meet John Doe · Beat 281 · permalink

Bar

1:26:23–1:26:56 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:26:391:26:39

Play from 1:26:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 131 · shots 682–682. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in suit and hat, facing right, speaking visible, audible
  • man in dark coat and hat, facing left, listening visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men sit at a table with drinks, one speaking, the other listening. [frame:1]
Also said
“I'm gonna... Play this, Ash Bangle, better.” 86:41 · “I've been mad to his own taste.” 86:55
Seen
glasses with liquid [frame:1], table [frame:1], hats [frame:1], suits [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: conflict, personal revelation, alcohol as backdrop; style notes: close two-shot, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film grain

Two men sit at a table in a dimly lit interior, speaking in close proximity. One man gestures while speaking; the other listens, with drinks visible on the table.

“Yep, I'm hard. But you want to know something?” 86:24 · “Yes, I will.” 86:29 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 1:26:39 (passage 1:26:23–1:26:56); US record: No renewal found

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