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Meet John Doe · Beat 294 · permalink

Restaurant

1:34:12–1:34:33 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:34:171:34:17Frame at 1:34:241:34:24Frame at 1:34:291:34:29

Play from 1:34:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 132 · shots 717–719. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
restaurant (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, mid-adult, wearing a shiny jacket and tie, dark hair, mustache visible, audible
  • woman, mid-adult, wearing a light-colored patterned dress, dark hair styled up visible, audible
Also said
“You didn't?” 94:26 · “That's a spoiled bracelet you're wearing.” 94:30
Seen
chandelier, dining table with place settings, bracelet, shiny jacket
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and personal; themes: personal accountability, misunderstanding, social appearance; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, formal interior setting with chandeliers

A man and a woman converse in a dimly lit, formal room with chandeliers; the woman expresses relief at seeing the man and questions him about a written item, while he denies knowing what was going on. The woman notes his bracelet is spoiled.

“John, I'm so glad to see you. I was terribly worried. Did you write this?” 94:17 · “Yes, I did, but I didn't know what was going on.” 94:22 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 1:34:17 (passage 1:34:12–1:34:33); US record: No renewal found

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