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Meet John Doe · Beat 293 · permalink

Dining room

1:34:05–1:34:12 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:34:061:34:06Frame at 1:34:071:34:07Frame at 1:34:101:34:10

Play from 1:34:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 132 · shots 714–716. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
dining_room (other, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:3
People
  • man, adult, wearing a fedora and a long trench coat, standing visible
  • woman, adult, wearing a white formal dress with puffed sleeves and a corseted waist, gesturing visible
  • man, older, balding, wearing a tuxedo, seated at table visible
  • man, older, wearing a tuxedo, standing behind p2 visible
Seen happening
  • A woman in a white dress gestures toward the table. [frame:2]
  • A man in a trench coat stands still in a dim room. [frame:1]
  • Several formally dressed people are seated or standing around a candlelit dinner table. [frame:3]
Seen
chandelier, candelabra, dinner table with glassware and flowers, tuxedo, fedora, trench coat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and tense; themes: social class, interruption, formal gathering; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, medium shots, static framing, period costume

A man in a fedora and trench coat stands in a dimly lit room with chandeliers; a woman in a white formal dress gestures at a candlelit dinner table where other formally dressed guests are seated. The transcript contains only the word 'Hello.'

“Hello.” 94:08 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 1:34:06 (passage 1:34:05–1:34:12); US record: No renewal found

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