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Meet John Doe · Beat 324 · permalink

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1:53:57–1:56:01 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:54:591:54:59

Play from 1:53:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 150 · shots 765–765. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1, t:114:10
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • unseen audible
  • unseen audible
  • unseen audible
Seen happening
  • A clock is visible in darkness, showing approximately 10:55. [frame:1]
Also said
“I'm afraid the joke's on us.” 115:30 · “Nobody finds out we've been here.” 115:33
Seen
clock [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and resigned; themes: secrecy, regret, nighttime urgency; style notes: low-key lighting, single object focus (clock), high contrast between illuminated clock and surrounding darkness

A character speaks about walking up to a tower and decorating a tree, while others express resignation and concern about being discovered. A clock is visible in darkness, suggesting late night.

“as far as the elevator goes. We gotta walk up to the tower.” 114:10 · “Let's go. I have to decorate my tree.” 115:08 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 1:54:59 (passage 1:53:57–1:56:01); US record: No renewal found

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