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Meet John Doe · Beat 320 · permalink

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1:52:44–1:52:52 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 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 1:52:481:52:48

Play from 1:52:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 147 · shots 761–761. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, wearing dark hat and coat, visible in shadow in foreground visible
  • woman, light-colored hair, walking away in background visible
  • figure in dark clothing, visible in shadow in far background visible
Seen
pillars [frame:1], shiny floor [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber, mysterious; themes: isolation, urban anonymity; style notes: high-contrast lighting, deep focus, static framing

A dimly lit interior shows a man in shadow in the foreground and a woman walking away in the background. Other figures are faintly visible further back in the hallway.

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 1:52:48 (passage 1:52:44–1:52:52); US record: No renewal found

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