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Meet John Doe · Beat 318 · permalink

Living room

1:49:21–1:51:56 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; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:50:391:50:39

Play from 1:49:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 145 · shots 759–759. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, visible in profile, dark hair, wearing dark formal attire with bow tie visible
  • unspecified speaker, audible audible
  • Ann (named at t:111:35): unspecified, but referenced as 'sick girl' mentioned
  • Mr. Cannell (named at t:111:46): unspecified, spoken to on phone mentioned
  • John Doe (named at t:111:13): unspecified, referenced as 'screwball' mentioned
Seen happening
  • A man in formal wear stands near a decorated tree. [frame:1]
Also said
“Fine, Mr. Dole.” 109:46 · “John Doe.” 111:13
Seen
man in formal wear [frame:1], decorated tree [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and emotional; themes: deception, redemption, media manipulation, Christmas; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up, low-key lighting, static framing

A man in formal wear stands near a decorated tree in a dim interior. The transcript includes emotional exchanges, references to 'John Doe,' and plans for midnight surveillance.

“Liar.” 109:40 · “I hate you.” 109:41 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 1:50:39 (passage 1:49:21–1:51:56); US record: No renewal found

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