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Meet John Doe · Beat 290 · permalink

Restaurant

1:33:11–1:33:31 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; 5 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 1:33:121:33:12Frame at 1:33:141:33:14Frame at 1:33:231:33:23Frame at 1:33:291:33:29

Play from 1:33:11 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 700–704. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:2, frame:4
People
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a light-colored formal dress with lace or embroidery visible
  • man, dark hair, wearing a tuxedo and bow tie, smoking a cigar visible
  • D.B. (named at t:93:26): man, balding, wearing a tuxedo and bow tie visible, audible
  • man, wearing a trench coat and fedora hat visible
  • man, older, wearing a tuxedo and bow tie, seated at table visible
Seen happening
  • A woman sits at a table looking forward. [frame:1]
  • Two men in tuxedos sit at a table; one smokes a cigar. [frame:2]
  • A man in a trench coat and hat enters the room. [frame:3]
  • A man in a tuxedo speaks while seated at a table. [frame:4]
Also said
“Little Bennett's got to be taken care of. Didn't I tell you that everybody in this room would be taken care of?” 93:20 · “I'm with you, D.B., but I still think it's a very daring thing we're attempting.” 93:26
Seen
tuxedo [frame:2, frame:4], bow tie [frame:2, frame:4], trench coat [frame:3], fedora hat [frame:3], cigar [frame:2], dining table with flowers and glassware [frame:2, frame:4], chandelier [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: political negotiation, power and influence, personal conditions in agreements; style notes: black-and-white, medium and close shots, dramatic lighting with shadows, formal attire suggests a high-stakes social setting

A woman in a formal dress and two men in tuxedos are seated at a table in a dimly lit room; a man in a trench coat and hat enters. A man named D.B. is addressed in the dialogue, and a condition is set regarding 'Little Bennett'.

“If you can guarantee the John Doe vote...” 93:13 · “You can count on me on one condition.” 93:17 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 1:33:12 (passage 1:33:11–1:33:31); US record: No renewal found

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