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Meet John Doe · Beat 310 · permalink

Park

1:42:53–1:43:28 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; 1 name 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 1:43:101:43:10

Play from 1:42:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 140 · shots 748–748. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
park (other, exterior) evidence: t:102:58
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • visible in foreground, wearing light-colored shirt or apron, dark hair, seen from behind or side visible
Seen happening
  • A person is visible in the foreground looking down at a crowd in a park at night. [frame:1]
Also said
“Some kind of a gig.” 103:20 · “A what?” 103:21
Seen
crowd, lighting
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: chaotic and tense; themes: mob mentality, urban unrest, youth in chaos; style notes: high-angle shot, black-and-white, low-key lighting, crowd scale emphasized

A crowd of newsboys gathers in a park at night, as heard in the transcript. One person is visible in the foreground, looking down at the crowd.

“Hundreds of yelling newsboys are squarming into the park like the Lopis.” 102:58 · “Oh” 103:07 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 1:43:10 (passage 1:42:53–1:43:28); US record: No renewal found

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