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Meet John Doe · Beat 287 · permalink

Newsroom

1:31:50–1:32:24 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:31:511:31:51Frame at 1:32:081:32:08

Play from 1:31:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 132 · shots 689–690. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
newsroom (newsroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark coat, standing near doorway visible
  • Charlie (named at t:92:16): man in bowler hat, seated at table, smoking cigarette visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a coat stands near a doorway. [frame:1]
  • A man in a bowler hat sits at a table with a cigarette. [frame:2]
Also said
“- Yes, sir. - Better bring me a glass of milk.” 92:06 · “Fine. John Dobbin taken care of?” 92:19
Seen
typewriter, cigarette, glass, table
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and preparatory; themes: preparation for public event, media and speechmaking, hierarchical workplace; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costume

A man in a coat stands near a doorway while another man in a bowler hat sits at a table with a cigarette. The transcript includes dialogue about a speech, a glass of milk, and preparations for an event.

“Hey, boss!” 91:51 · “Here's the speech, boss.” 91:52 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 1:31:51 (passage 1:31:50–1:32:24); US record: No renewal found

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