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Meet John Doe · Beat 49 · permalink

Private office

15:23–15:50 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; 2 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 15:3715:37

Play from 15:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 139–139. 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
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a dark coat or jacket, visible in profile visible, audible
  • man, medium build, dark hair, wearing a light-colored button-up shirt, visible facing slightly left visible, audible
Also said
“Well, the paper says there were some jobs around loose. Thought there might be one left over. Had any schooling?” 15:35 · “I used to pitch.” 15:44
Seen
button-up shirt [frame:1], dark coat or jacket [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but conversational; themes: employment, personal history, interview; style notes: medium close-up, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static framing

A man and a woman converse in an interior setting; the man says he did not write a letter to Miss Mitchell and mentions he used to pitch baseball before his wing went bad. The woman asks about his schooling and work history.

“Did you write that letter to Miss Mitchell?” 15:29 · “No, I didn't.” 15:31 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 15:37 (passage 15:23–15:50); US record: No renewal found

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