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Meet John Doe · Beat 47 · permalink

Private office

15:12–15:20 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; 4 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 15:1615:16

Play from 15:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 22 · shots 137–137. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in work shirt and trousers, holding hat, medium build, appears mid-30s visible
  • man in dark uniform with cap, visible from side visible
  • older man, balding, in dark suit, facing p1 visible
  • man in dark suit, back to camera, standing between p1 and p3 visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a work shirt stands holding his hat while three other men face him. [frame:1]
Seen
hat [frame:1], uniform cap [frame:1], office door with glass panels [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or expectant; themes: confrontation, class difference, authority; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static framing

A man in a work shirt stands holding his hat while three other men face him in what appears to be an office hallway. One man is in uniform; another is older and balding. The transcript contains only the word 'Awesome.'

“Awesome.” 15:17 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 15:16 (passage 15:12–15:20); US record: No renewal found

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