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Meet John Doe · Beat 41 · permalink

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14:48–14:56 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 14:4814:48Frame at 14:5214:52

Play from 14:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 17 · shots 130–131. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • woman with dark hair, wearing a dark hat and a plaid top, mid-20s to 30s visible
  • man wearing a fedora and a scarf, older, thin face, wearing a jacket over a collared shirt visible
Seen happening
  • Woman is shown in close-up, reacting with a surprised expression. [frame:1]
  • Man in hat and scarf walks through a crowded interior space. [frame:2]
Seen
hat, plaid top, fedora, scarf, jacket
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: surprise, movement, urban interior; style notes: close-up on woman's face for emotional reaction, medium shot of man in motion; high-contrast black-and-white lighting

A woman reacts with surprise in a close-up, followed by a man in a hat and scarf walking through a crowded interior space. No names are spoken, and the setting is not clearly identifiable beyond being indoors.

“Oh, no.” 14:48 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 14:48 (passage 14:48–14:56); US record: No renewal found

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